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Open saucers plan legal attack on patent office
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Penguins of a feather
Fri Mar 27 2009, 11:20
LEGAL EAGLES working for Open Sauce collectives have discovered that there is a cheap way of fighting concerns about patent liability.
Van Lindberg, an attorney with Haynes and Boone, who spoke at Infoworld's Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, said that more outfits should be asking the US Patent & Trademark Office to re-examine patents that may pose a threat to them.
He said that this is a cheaper, sometimes more suitable alternative to waging a patent lawsuit.
Some Open Source groups are successfully using this method. µ
L'Inq
PC World
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"Why would anyone waste time "attacking" the government? What would they hope to achieve?"
-That's exactly what I told the crowd back in Paris on july 14th 1789.
A request for re-exam is not an attack "on" the patent office.
It is an attack i in /i the patent office, i through /i the patent office, i on /i some company's patent.
Why would anyone waste time "attacking" the government? What would they hope to achieve?
They're asking the patent office to review - nothing to do with the patent holder.
To make such an attack, a vendor would be inviting triple dmages if the patent is held valid.