Comments on: Why Google Will Invalidate Linux-Hostile Patents

By: twitter

twitter — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:51:45 +0000

Barnes and Noble's defense against Microsoft is explosive stuff. There's nothing that reasonable people have not been saying since 2004 but now we have the details of the scam being presented in court. I try to put this in context here and in my Microsoft patent extortion timeline. The EU should stop listening to mobbiest like Florian Mueller who claim that Microsoft's licensing of software patents is somehow "cooperative" or FRAND. Anti-trust regulators now have clear and convincing evidence of how Microsoft abuses the power they lobby for. Hopefully Congress will act to abolish software patents and the US Department of Justice will prosecute Microsoft for their decade long scam.

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:36:22 +0000

Sounds a bit like Acacia then...

By: walterbyrd

walterbyrd — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:38:46 +0000

Bedrock v Google case may have ties to Microsoft.

> before Garrod launched his anti-Linux-user Bedford antics, he worked for a company that named Microsoft as one of its big clients.

> Goodwin and Proctor (which was Goodwin, Procter & Hoar at the time) defended Microsoft in its DOJ antitrust case (United States v. Microsoft). Since then, various lawyers from Goodwin and Proctor have defended Microsoft on IP cases big and small, including its first civil case to be heard by the Supreme Court, the 2007 case against AT&T, which it won.

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