Yes, but in the article, it shows he filed the patent in 1995, was granted it in 1998, and E-Bay contacted him to talk about licensing it in 2000. This does not sound like some johnny-come-lately trying to cash in on someone else's work. I can't comment on the validitiy of this case (not being a patent lawyer) but this one seems different, as he has been protecting his patent since 1995. This one strikes me as different from some company buying up and old patent, or someone filing a patent of dubious worth-DP
This one is interesting, since it does not seem, on the face of it, to be one of those patent squatters-key in this is that EBay approached the patent holder to try and buy the patent (as opposed to one of those out of the blue lawyer letters asking for millions) Will be interesting to see where this goes-DP
According to The Register, Sony already paid, to the tune of $15 million-
Forgent's most recent SEC filing states that Sony Corporation paid the company $15 million for licensing Patent 4,698,672: a significant portion of the $22 million Forgent booked as revenue in the quarter.
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Yes, but in the article, it shows he filed the patent in 1995, was granted it in 1998, and E-Bay contacted him to talk about licensing it in 2000. This does not sound like some johnny-come-lately trying to cash in on someone else's work. I can't comment on the validitiy of this case (not being a patent lawyer) but this one seems different, as he has been protecting his patent since 1995. This one strikes me as different from some company buying up and old patent, or someone filing a patent of dubious worth-DP
This one is interesting, since it does not seem, on the face of it, to be one of those patent squatters-key in this is that EBay approached the patent holder to try and buy the patent (as opposed to one of those out of the blue lawyer letters asking for millions) Will be interesting to see where this goes-DP
According to The Register, Sony already paid, to the tune of $15 million- Forgent's most recent SEC filing states that Sony Corporation paid the company $15 million for licensing Patent 4,698,672: a significant portion of the $22 million Forgent booked as revenue in the quarter.