First paragraph - intelligent, reasonable statement.
Second paragraph - unnecessary, non-constructive, confrontational, and not fitting for the Slashdot forum.
Tutorial: In the future, think very, very carefully before comunicating statements like "me and my lawyer say you owe me $450."
Come now, Joe Commodore, various software products exist that cull a body of patents based on a product descriptor. These Gutierrez numbers give you plenty of information to hone in on the set (if any) of 235 patent. Probably, many of the patents are related - meaning they are based on the same "priority" application.
As I asked in another sub-thread - are the MS-DELL and MS-RED HAD patent agreements available? Please provide. I am very curious.
I am late in this thread, but permit me to ask:
Is there any publically accessible list, or partial list, of these "235" patents?
Is the NOVEL-MS agreement public?
Has MS identified any particular LINUX code or feature in its reported threats?
Fear not, I am not an MS mole.
All I ask for is information that is publically accessible, i.e., posted.
Any publically accessible MS threat or notice letters? If so, please provide.
Correction on your definition of patent, only as an academic opinion -
A patent is not an absolute monopoly to do anything. A patent is a limited right to exclude others. To exclude others from doing what the claims recite. You can patent an improvement on someone else's patent. This may cause a stalement; you cannot practice your invention without infringing his patent. Generally, he cannot practice your improvement, even though its based on his invention, because it's your patent.
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First paragraph - intelligent, reasonable statement. Second paragraph - unnecessary, non-constructive, confrontational, and not fitting for the Slashdot forum. Tutorial: In the future, think very, very carefully before comunicating statements like "me and my lawyer say you owe me $450."
Come now, Joe Commodore, various software products exist that cull a body of patents based on a product descriptor. These Gutierrez numbers give you plenty of information to hone in on the set (if any) of 235 patent. Probably, many of the patents are related - meaning they are based on the same "priority" application. As I asked in another sub-thread - are the MS-DELL and MS-RED HAD patent agreements available? Please provide. I am very curious.
I am late in this thread, but permit me to ask: Is there any publically accessible list, or partial list, of these "235" patents? Is the NOVEL-MS agreement public? Has MS identified any particular LINUX code or feature in its reported threats? Fear not, I am not an MS mole. All I ask for is information that is publically accessible, i.e., posted. Any publically accessible MS threat or notice letters? If so, please provide. Correction on your definition of patent, only as an academic opinion - A patent is not an absolute monopoly to do anything. A patent is a limited right to exclude others. To exclude others from doing what the claims recite. You can patent an improvement on someone else's patent. This may cause a stalement; you cannot practice your invention without infringing his patent. Generally, he cannot practice your improvement, even though its based on his invention, because it's your patent.