Re: Utility window architecture question
Re: Utility window architecture question
- Subject: Re: Utility window architecture question
- From: Donald Brown <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:00:09 -0500
on 5/19/02 2:38 PM, Ondra Cada at email@hidden wrote:
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On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 09:32 , Brendan Younger wrote:
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> I hate to throw down a good idea like this, but Adobe actually has a
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> patent on this "technology". They just finished suing Macromedia over it
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> (and I have not idea what FCP has it, maybe they licensed it), but you
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> ought to check the legality of it first.
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Nonsense. Nobody can patent such thing -- if so, next time you could
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patent using right-click for contextual menu. You can patent a solution
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(complete with detailed description of how you did it), not a generic idea.
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Or did the U.S. patent law go entirely mad?
Patent law may indeed have gone entirely mad, but this isn't the first case
of it. Now, I don't know the details of their patent, so just what it
covers, but they sued Macromedia and won. (Macromedia cross-sued about
another patent and won even more, so there is some justice.)
Donald
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