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- From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
- To: "David Megginson" <david@megginson.com>, <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:31:23 -0800
> In general, though, are there any recent examples of the big tech
> companies (i.e. Microsoft, IBM, Sun, etc.) trying to enforce a
> software patent? I've always thought of software patents as a
> little-person thing, like spurious law suits or domain-name squatting
> -- in other words, something the the major U.S. corporations would
> like to see disappear.
Unisys has been enforcing their patent on LZW encoding (compression). which
has caused some Web sites to drop GIF images.
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