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Thursday, August 13. 2009

How to Shoot Yourself In the Foot

Alex Hudson noticed that i4i, the company that tries to ban Microsoft Word being sold in the U.S. seems to have a product that is somehow based on (Add-on or Plug-in) … you guess … Microsoft Word.

Please, please, please let this stand. Not only because it's incredibly funny to see Microsoft suffer from a software patent lawsuit, but also because perhaps this will finally get a serious discussion going about software patents (and why not about patents in general, too?)

I can just see it: the next lawsuit is i4i sues Microsoft for not selling MS Word anymore and thus destroying their product.

Posted by Adrian von Bidder in Interesting, Society at 07:51 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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As with all software patent cases, it's obviously all a load of bullshit. BUT (big but) at least the aggressor actually has products - most of the time it's "patent holding companies" which simply buy bogus patents & use them to litigate without ever producing anything.

#1 Jo Shields (Homepage) on 2009-08-13 11:03 (Reply)

i4i sued Microsoft because Microsoft added functionality to Word that duplicates their add-on, which is presumably based on their patented technology. So it's somewhat less surprising. Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4653

#2 Jimmy Kaplowitz on 2009-08-13 15:22 (Reply)

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