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Stac Electronics is an example of Microsoft doing exactly what you described; it was patent - not copyright - law that allowed Stac to collect damages.
by justinsb 15y ago
Stac Electronics is an example of Microsoft doing exactly what you described; it was patent - not copyright - law that allowed Stac to collect damages.
- chc 15y agoIt was under patent law that they happened to file this suit, but similar copyright suits have been filed (this is why movie studios don't accept spec scripts and a prominent game developer deleted his Twitter account). And it's still pretty rare.
- brlewis 15y agoWhen chc mentioned "The little guy usually can't afford the money and time to patent things, much less enforce them", I assumed (s)he wasn't talking about little guys like Stac Electronics, a publicly traded company for whom a $9.7 million sales quarter was evidence of declining business. http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-22/business/fi-7159_1_patent-dispute http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-22/business/fi-7159_1_pa...