Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 20, 2004 10:18 AM
I don't know about the US, but I am pretty sure that in Europe, if you don't protect your patents, you loose them. I don't believe for a second that MS isn't aware of which patents, if any, are being infringed on. According to the logic above, if MS allows infringement to go on for an extended period of time (We all know the neither Apache nor Samba is new), the loose the right to sue over said infringement. Please correct me if this is not the case in the US.
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Re:The Patent War
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 20, 2004 10:18 AMI don't believe for a second that MS isn't aware of which patents, if any, are being infringed on. According to the logic above, if MS allows infringement to go on for an extended period of time (We all know the neither Apache nor Samba is new), the loose the right to sue over said infringement.
Please correct me if this is not the case in the US.
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