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Yeah I don’t buy it either. If there were Windows 95 design patents they were more than 11 years old by 2006 and had only a couple more years of life left.
by jeremyjh 4y ago
Yeah I don’t buy it either. If there were Windows 95 design patents they were more than 11 years old by 2006 and had only a couple more years of life left.
- tinus_hn 4y agoA key difference between a utility patent and a design patent is that the design patent, like a trademark, does not expire.
- jeremyjh 4y agoThat is not true; a design patent from 1995 would have had a fourteen year life. https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1505.html https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1505.html
- tinus_hn 4y agoI see, I don’t know why but I was under the impression they were infinite but they apparently are not.
- lproven 4y ago[Article author here] Follow the links I put in the piece. No legal action was taken in the end, partly because they couldn't work out who to sue, and partly because of the legal principle of laches. I cover this in the last article I linked to, which I wrote, a decade ago.
- jeremyjh 4y agoWhy does Miguel call it nonsense?
- POPOSYS 4y agoIt is generally not of interest if you buy something or not. For other readers it would be interesting to read evidence about the original article being wrong / right or more details that helps to better understand the situation.
- jeremyjh 4y agoI did point out the patent was near the end of its lifetime. Also, the founder of the gnome project is in this thread, calling it nonsense.