People are able to subscribe to a mailing list organized by the
defendant's lawyers. This is the latest posting to the list, received
by me yesterday :-
" It will be recalled that on April 17, 1997, Judge Jones in the New York
case had set a schedule for the parties in the New York case to submit
their papers explaining what they think the claims mean. Defendants'
papers were to be filed no later than June 27, 1997. Plaintiff's papers
were to be filed by July 25, 1997, and defendants' reply papers were
to be filed by August 8, 1997.
And indeed on June 27, 1997, three briefs were filed, one by Broderbund
Software and Intuit Inc., one by Compuserve Inc., and one by Internet
Software. (I expect that most if not all of the other defendants concur
in the content of the three briefs.)
The defendants then watched with interest to see what papers would be filed
by IGE/E-Data on July 25. But instead, what happened is that on July
21, counsel for IGE/E-Data wrote to the Judge (with copies of the letter
sent to the defendants) to ask for permission to hand in IGE/E-Data's
papers on a later date. The request was to have the due date changed to September 27, 1997, with defendants' reply papers to be due October 8, 1997.
In response to the request, the Judge did push back the due date, though
not as far as IGE/E-Data wished. The new due date is August 29, 1997,
with defendants' reply papers due September 12, 1997.
So now the defendants are watching with interest to see what papers
will be filed by IGE/E-Data on August 29. "
Just out of interest, the same group monitors this discussion forum, and
occassionally mentions the postings here in the mailing list messages.
Regards,
Durro |
