{"id":63843,"date":"2009-12-04T18:55:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091203\/0903017177.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-04T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:55:40","slug":"live-by-the-patent-get-sued-by-the-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/63843","title":{"rendered":"Live By The Patent, Get Sued By The Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has been a big believer in patents<\/a> lately, even though Bill Gates once classically noted<\/a> that the computer industry would have been at a “standstill” if people had aggressively patented ideas back in the early days of personal computing. Since then, however, Microsoft has massively ramped up<\/a> its patenting machine. But, of course, if you live by the patent, you should expect to get sued by the patent as well. Brian<\/a> writes in to let us know that a patent holding firm, with a long history of suing a bunch of big name tech firms<\/a> is now suing Microsoft as well<\/a>, claiming that every copy of Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 violate its patent 6629163<\/a> on “Demultiplexing a First Sequence of Packet Components to Identify Specific Components Wherein Subsequent Components are Processed without Re-Identifying Components.” I have no idea if the patent is valid or not, but I always find it amusing when big patent system supporters find themselves sued for patent infringement as well.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft has been a big believer in patents lately, even though Bill Gates once classically noted that the computer industry would have been at a “standstill” if people had aggressively patented ideas back in the early days of personal computing. Since then, however, Microsoft has massively ramped up its patenting machine. But, of course, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}