Re: From JavaLobby News

Hi,

one last note to this one. We are quite lucky that it is Sun holding this patent:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,738,079.WKU.&OS=PN/6,738,079&RS=PN/6,738,079

Writing an IDE without holding this one would be a real high risk adventure ;-)

Also Sun versus Microsoft friendship can be seen as a very good in the light of 
this discussion.

I promise I will keep silent on this topic, promise.

Best,

David


David Strupl wrote:
> Mike Skells wrote:
> 
>> Two points
>> 1. It is common practice to patent in the UK and the EU (and lots of
>> other countries). I an not sure what the 'EU is just considering ...'
>> relates to. EU has software only patents ( I hold 2 software only
>> patents myself filed in EU, US and 70+ countries, amongst other patents)
> 
> 
> I have found only 1 here:
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,088,367.WKU.&OS=PN/6,088,367&RS=PN/6,088,367 
> 
> 
> But that at least proves that you are not making it up ;-)
> 
>>
>> 2.  patent should be considered as valid until it is disproved, unless
>> you know of some guatanteed menchanism to invalidate the patent e.g.
>> prior art, it should be considered as a high risk strategy to just
>> ignore it.
> 
> 
> Shouldn't the holder of the patent first notify the other party that a 
> possible breach is under way?
> 
> Seems like you propose that when writing any program you are obliged to 
> know all the thousands of patents filed all over the world. Cool.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David
> 
>>
>> I am not a legal expert, but I believe that hosting of the download has
>> little to do with the patent breach or not.
>>
>> A better idea is for Sun to get guidance from their lawyers. As SUN
>> contribute a significant (or more) proportion of the effort then thay
>> would be the ones to be sued, along with IDEA, Eclipse et al
>>
>> Mike