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Re: I think...
...that MS is trying to claim that US patent laws shouldn't apply to activity outside the US, not that patents aren't being infringed.

Just going by the info in the article:
If I have a patent on "insert tab A into slot B" then you cannot insert tab A into slot B in your products in the US without a license from me.

Nor can you box up all your tab As and slot Bs and send them to an assembly plant overseas to do the insertion. You'd still need a license from me.

But you can take a picture of tab A and slot B, send it to an overseas fabricatrion plant and instruct it to fabricate them and dend it on to the assembly plant for insertion. That's not a patent infringement and you don't need a license from me.

Microsoft is arguing the second scenario applies and ATT is arguing the first does.

I don't know which is right, and it seems like a silly argument if one has accepted the notion that an idea is property.

Just another example of ideas are not property, if anyone needed another.



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Good,  galileon | 02/21/07
Chief Justice Roberts...  Anton Philidor | 02/21/07
I think you're right  John L. Ries | 02/22/07
Oath  Spoon Jabber | 02/22/07
Logic.  Anton Philidor | 02/21/07
Properly before the Court  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/22/07
If they don't have to rule on patentability of software...  John L. Ries | 02/22/07
Microsoft is arguing that their OS software isn't a PC component.  thetruth_z | 02/22/07
Interesting  John L. Ries | 02/22/07
huh???  none none | 02/21/07
Did I read this right?  Fred Fredrickson | 02/21/07
I think...  rapson | 02/22/07
Re: I think...  none none | 02/22/07
Not just software; all patents must die [nt]  Omch'Ar | 02/21/07
Spoken like a bloke who never had an original thought.  osreinstall | 02/21/07
So tell us...  techboy_z | 02/22/07
Here we go again for the untalented.  osreinstall | 02/22/07
Re: Here we go again for the untalented.  none none | 02/22/07
You have to have a incentive program.  osreinstall | 02/22/07
Re: You have to have a incentive program.  none none | 02/22/07
Patents are here to stay.  osreinstall | 02/22/07
You don't need an incentive program! IP & Patents hurt innovation...  jjarman | 02/23/07
Smarter people than you disagree.  osreinstall | 02/23/07
hmmm...  jjarman | 02/23/07
Patent system is not that bad.  osreinstall | 02/23/07
Ooh  Omch'Ar | 02/22/07
Little touchy there.  osreinstall | 02/22/07
Please comment further  John L. Ries | 02/22/07
MS has already lost  Fred Fredrickson | 02/22/07
Agreed... Just look at the Mpeg-LA  thetruth_z | 02/22/07
The idea of patents should be to protect the littleguy  LittleGuy | 02/22/07
You can't patent that.  jmusto@... | 02/22/07
unfortunatly wrong...  jjarman | 02/23/07
Thoughts & Idea  jjarman | 02/23/07

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