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Technology Stocks : IFMX - Investment Discussion
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To: uu who wrote (13895)2/8/2000 2:19:00 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist  Read Replies (1) of 14631
 
I don't know what the reason is, but I've worked at big companies and patented things, and it might be that the reason the suit happened after all this time is that the patent lawyers at IBM just found out that they could sue IFMX. (Say the "VP of Patents" gets asked about his budget, so he goes to his people and says, "Hurry up and sue someone or we'll lose our phony-baloney jobs and I'll lose all my stock options." So they call the engineers they know and one of them says, well we could sue IFMX over their use of named subroutines that take arguments, and we're off to the races.)

I am morally certain that it won't matter at all to IFMX.
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