About 2 years ago I was able to get a little closer to the patent litigation process, by way of giving a deposition in litigation that was filed against Sun and Apple (and has been settled).
Apparently, there's an entire sub-economy built on patent litigation among the technology players. Suits, counter-suits, counter-counter-suits, etc, are just part of every day business. And the money that gets poured down the drain! Here's an example. During my deposition, the lawyer questioning me opened a large box, and removed 3 sets of a 500+ slide deck created by myself and Richard McDougall for seminars and tutorials on Solaris. Each set was color print on heavy, glossy paper. That represented color printing of about 1600 pages total. All so the attorney could question me about 2 of the slides. I almost fell off my chair.... /jim Rob Windsor wrote: > http://news.com.com/NetApp+files+patent+suit+against+Sun/2100-1014_3-6206194.html > > I'm curious how many of those patent filings cover technologies that > they carried over from Auspex. > > While it is legal for them to do so, it is a bit shady to inherit > technology (two paths; employees departing Auspex and the Auspex > bankruptcy asset buyout), file patents against that technology, and then > open suits against other companies based on (patents covering) that > technology. > > (No, I'm not defending Sun in it's apparent patent-growling, either, it > all sucks IMO.) > > Rob++ > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
