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To: Arthur_Porcari who wrote (683)6/10/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: lindend   of 1440
 
Art,

apparently you have a patent attorney that likes to churn your account.

I've never paid for a patent in my life (although I'm good friends with my IP attorney).

Anyone familiar with the software industry realizes that software engineers assign their rights to their employers (typically in exchange for a bonus) and are not responsible for fees.

So far, I've worked at two large companies and two small ones and they all were fanatical about getting software patents. Large one's like IBM don't care what its about, smaller ones require it to be germane to the field in question, but they ALL want patents.

but that countries like Taiwan and the Philippines have gotten so good at pirating, that the trend was away from patenting software.

This person literally has no idea what they are talking about. Care to name names?

Software patents have meant the difference between victory and defeat for solutions such as audio and video watermarking and a host of other IP related decisions.

For small companies, the need is magnified even more.

The only reason two small companies will win in DVD Audio watermarking is because of their strong patent position:

techweb.com

Both are said to hold essential patents as well as
robust watermarking technologies.

Small Taiwanese companies may pirate, but the Sonys, IBMs and Matsushita's of the world won't.
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