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Rather expensive publicity, but...
Working as head of Research & Techcology for a ;aw firm this suit makes me cringe. IF the court finds the claim baseless in theory they could order Googles to pay the Google legal bill and that quickly becomes tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. The firm I work for would never take a case on a claim this light weight.

They waited many years too long and are not in a business that similar. Issues of this type have been decided for years and Googles has about zero chance. When Toyota first announced the Lexus, the on-line legal service Lexis\Nexis tried litigation. Mead Paper, who owned Lexis\Nexis at that time, lost. I lived in Dayton, Ohio then and remember that case well.

I still think the boys at SCO are doing infomercials on selling the idea of baseless lawsuits, and making wild claims on old unenforcible patents and tradmarks. Right off the bat Googles waited too long for enforcement, just as SCO clearly has problems of this type on their claim. It is not like Googles did not know Google existed. This is just a bad attempt to prop up a marginal company.
Posted by: drichards1953   Posted on: 07/08/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Wow  billywill | 07/07/04
Trademark technicalities  Letophoro | 07/07/04
yeah  eLurker | 07/07/04
Wonder why it took nearly 8 years for them to decide to sue(NT)  Monkey_MCSE | 07/07/04
IPO pending  AbsolutelyNot | 07/07/04
I don't see the merit.  doe_z | 07/07/04
Just the exposure alone will get Googles on the map  el1jones | 07/07/04
Rather expensive publicity, but...  drichards1953 | 07/08/04
My Thoughts EXACTLY!  Counselor_Beep | 07/07/04
Generic term argument?  AbsolutelyNot | 07/07/04
one followed by a hundred zeros  neil ubich | 07/07/04
Got the spelling wrong, but the meaning right  AbsolutelyNot | 07/07/04
Silly  SublimeDaze | 07/07/04
Here we go again!!  drichards1953 | 07/08/04
Neither side has merit in any lawsuits  savagesteve13 | 07/09/04

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