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  Mousky, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 10:15am

  
  

  Litigation versus Innovation

  No coincidence that Visto signs a licensing deal with NTP, NTP buys a stake in Visto and Visto goes to sue Microsoft, all in a matter of days. Welcome to patent soap opera. Lets litigate rather than innovate.

   

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  Craig Burnham, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 12:20pm

  
  

  Coincidence indeed

  Anyone with any sort of intelligence could tell you that whats going on with NTP and Visto is not a coincidence. At least the US patent system is setup in a way to prevent things like this from happening.....
  
  
  
  Oh wait

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 1:22pm

  
  

  Trend is growing

  this trend of patent trolls sueing for millions/billions of dollars is getting ridiculous quick.. is there any end in site? when do you think it really began? i think software restrictive patents on common codecs/compression (divx, mp3, etc) is the first time it ever struck me as holding inovation back
  

   

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