Austin's Forgent settles another patent infringement case
Via The Austin Business Journal.
Austin's Forgent Networks Inc., along with its Compression Labs subsidiary, has reached an agreement with Research In Motion Limited over a patent license dispute.
Forgent settled with Waterloo, Canada-based Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), with the agreement covering Forgent's data compression technology embodied in its JPEG-related patent, often referred to as the '672 patent.
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless products for the worldwide mobile communications market, including the BlackBerry wireless platform.
posted by Fergie @ 10/27/2005 03:25:00 PM
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The Forgent patent extortion racket is one of the strongest examples of how our patent system was broke.
This patent is due to expire in a year. Maybe then these vultures will finally go away.
More info: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63200,00.html?tw=wn_story_related
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