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Trend Micro Says Their Patent Suit Isn't About Open Source

Bruce Perens
Fri Jun 13 19:05:00 -0700 2008
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Eva Chen, CEO of Trend Micro, currently suing Barracuda over Trend's patent on an anti-virus scanning gateway, was interviewed in PC World. She says "It's not about Open Source", but she manages to sound rather short of a clue in this interview, and makes a poor case for this sort of patent being issued at all.

Trend Micro Says Their Patent Suit Isn't About Open Source
Timothy Brownawell
Fri Jun 13 20:10:12 -0700 2008
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Weren't the standards for obviousness made much more sane recently? Maybe that'll help with this...

Trend Micro Says Their Patent Suit Isn't About Open Source
Uncle Entity
Fri Jun 13 20:39:45 -0700 2008
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Barracuda argues that if the 600 patent is allowed to stand, the courts would be granting Trend Micro a monopoly in gateway antivirus scanning.

Umm...

Don't think I'd bet the farm on that defense.

Trend Micro Says Their Patent Suit Isn't About Open Source
John Dalton
Sat Jun 14 04:19:02 -0700 2008
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And then later on even IBM themselves exchanged their patent with us, and so there was some recognition of that as a valid patent. And then later on it was litigated.

That comment from the article is complete rubbish.  All IBM's patent exchange means is that it was cheaper to exchange patents than to pay lawyers to go to court to eliminate the 600 patent.  It's complete spin to interpret IBM's actions as a vote of confidence in the patent.

Trend Micro Says Their Patent Suit Isn't About Open Source
Uncle Entity
Sat Jun 14 08:23:02 -0700 2008
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I'm just saying the whole theory behind patents is to give the holder a market monopoly.

 

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