I've been involved in technical advice in patent litigation for a while,
and the tactic which is usually employed to deal with silly patents like
that is to wait until the patent holder sues for infringement and then
to present obvious prior art as the defence, to have the patent declared
invalid.
Ian
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Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:51:46 Stephen Davies wrote:
>> Microsoft has patented 'sudo'
>>
>> Arrgghhh! WTF? etc etc etc
>>
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390
>>
>> Stephen D
>>
>
> I must admit I read about these new patents with a degree of amusement. It's a
> bit of a last-gasp effort isn't it?
>
> Tim B.
