Comments on: Patent Monkey: Details on Alcatel’s $1.5 B Win Against Microsoft

By: CHRISTINA

CHRISTINA — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:08:52 +0000

OMG! IM WORKING ON THIS COURT CASE FOR MY LAW CLASS IM LOST ON WHATS GOING ON! ALL I KNOW IS THAT MICROSOFT IS COUNTERSUING LUCENT! IF ANYONE CAN PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHATS GOING ON IT WOULD HELP ME OUT BIG TIME. MY EMAIL IS

KIMPOSSIBLE559@YAHOO.COM

THANKS

By: Adah

Adah — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:59:03 +0000

Hi Mark, what the nonsense were you speaking about? It is like the Eolas case: if MS loses, everyone else except the patent holder loses. MS paid money for the MP3 patent to Fraunhofer, but there are more claimers appearing! As another person mentions, Vorbis may infringe the patents as well.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:45:56 +0000

Kudos to Hayek who pointed out what should be obvious to all. Robert, although we probably both hate lawyers just as much, I have to defend that this has nothing to do with greedy lawyers this time. This is more like M$ finally getting what they deserve – they have a long history of steeling other companies best ideas and incorporating them into Windows and using their cash reserves and army of attorneys to get away with it, but not this time!

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:11:57 +0000

Whats the world coming to – encoding/compressing audio in this way is inevitable – why not just file a patent for the whole of reality and be done with it. Then everything we do from picking our noses to programming to using sellotape could incur a cost. Greedy lawyers are behind some of the worst ills of this world.

By: Hayek

Hayek — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:08:40 +0000

What makes you think OGG V doesn’t infringe those claims??

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:16:07 +0000

Does this mean Apple is in for some big trouble with iTunes? How about the other software makers who use MP3.

Can you say OGG Vorbis? MP3 sucked anyway…