Friday, May 26th, 2006
A while back I wrote about the Forgent JPEG patent and how they are sending demand letters to small companies (I posted a copy here). Now comes word from GrokLaw that most of the patent has been thrown out by the Patent Office as invalid.
No word on whether any of ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
Wired ran an article today by Lawrence Lessing singing the praises of a new Microsoft protocol called "InfoCard". I took a quick look at the technical reference and it seems very straight forward AND is all build on a bunch of OASIS and W3C standards for web services. So far, ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
About a month ago I wrote about the Forgent JPEG Patent saga. Recently a faithful reader sent me a copy of a demand letter sent on behalf of Forgent (to a company that shall ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
Last April a company called Forgent Networks initiated 31 lawsuits against various companies using the JPEG format based on an old US Patent # 4,698,672 which Forgent acquired by buying up some other company. ...
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Do you like the Opera form autofill feature? What about FireFox's or Google Toolbar's? IANAL, but it might be patented ... by Microsoft, Apple and Intel. Take a look at the following three patents:
6,651,217 - "System and method for populating forms with previously used data values"
6,192,380 -"Automatic web based form ...
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
(This article was published at Circle-ID)
As the year comes to a close, it is important to reflect on what has been one of the major actions in the anti-spam arena this year: the quest for email authentication. With email often called the "killer app" of the Internet, it is important ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Daniel Quinlan of ASF mentioned in a recent newsgroup posting that Sender-ID negotiations between the FOSS world and Microsoft may restart:
I also briefly met with Ryan Hamlin, the GM of Microsoft's Safety
Technology & Strategy group, and he's interested in attempting a second
try at the patent license negotiation between us (well, ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
According to a post to the IETF's IPR list and an eWeek story, Microsoft maybe asserting IP rights over basic Internet protocols:
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
(This entry has been Slashdotted and published on Circle-ID).
With the closure of IETF's MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft's Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues, and causing the closure of MARID for ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2004
Slashdot is reporting on a new Microsoft patent that covers client-side data processing using drop-down menus, alphanumerical input boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, sliders, arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, and decision trees. That's right boys and girls - no more sortable DHTML tables, or any kind of fancy DHTML manipulations ...
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