[jawsscripts] Freedom Scientific suit against GW Micro
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
Although extensive discussion of this is probably not on topic here, I
think it is relevant to raise, particularly in light of recent
conversation about how FS attention is allocated.
For anyone interested, Freedom Scientific has sued GW Micro for infringing
a patent that FS filed on the placemarker feature of a JAWS virtual web
page. A blog article that supplies the legal text is
"Freedom Scientific Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against GW Micro"
http://blog.blindaccessjournal.com/
The technical text of the patent claim is
"United States Patent: 6993707"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%226,993,707+B2%22&OS=
An initial response by GW Micro is
"Do companies really compete on who has the best lawyers?"
http://www.gwmicro.com/blog/
The FS web site does not appear to mention the suit at this time.
I encourage people to become informed about this, and to express their
views through appropriate channels.
Regards,
Jamal
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