On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 christopher.jauregui@syngenta.com wrote: > > This could be one of those defining moments in US law. The patent holder > can't just sue MS and not Mozilla, etc. or else the owner could be done for > unfair trading practices, like MS was. Sure they can. Eolas hasn't been legally adjudged a monopolist in any market. Monopolies (MS, for example) live under a different legal regime than non-monooplists because their overwhelming marketplace power makes things that are 'competing tough' for a market with multiple viable competitors into 'competing with an unfair and unbeatable advantage'. Patent owners are not generally _FORCED_ to licence their patents to all comers 'fairly' (or even at all). I can point to _you_ and say: "You have to pay me $100,000,000,000 per year. But _this other fellow_ gets it for $1 a year. Nyah. Nyah." -- Benjamin Franz People buy holes, not drill bits. ---Peter DeutschReceived on Thursday, 4 September 2003 11:19:38 GMT
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