2006-04-29 Patents: JanneJalkanen writes about an open source software developer who got sent an invoice for $203,000 for patent violation, eventhough his software is prior art! All he has to do is go to court and defend himself. Ugh!!
Source : Alex Schroeder: Diary
JanneJalkanen writes about an open source software developer: He got sent “an invoice for $203,000, claiming that the 7000 or so users of his software resulted in damages of at least $29/each. It turns out that the patent in question was applied for after Ben Jacobsen published the source code of his program on the internet, and therefore his program qualifies as prior art [..]
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