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   viperdesignz, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 9:45pm

   
   

   I win

    

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   Just another joe, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 10:58pm

   
   

   Wow, that is so incredibly amazing. You posted two words of meaningless drivel, be proud and stand tall, you're cool!
   
   Next time try putting some thought into your post and you may start an actual conversation.
   
   Is no place safe from useless trolling?

    

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   COMMANDER, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 11:52pm

   
   

   ONE WORLD ORDER

    

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   Mac, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 1:13am

   
   

   Not too familiar with patent Law but I would have assumed that the patent protection extends outside the US but only to those countries which have patent agrements with the US?

    

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   Patcus, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 1:43am

   
   

   US is not the center of the world

    

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   Rick, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 1:54am

   
   

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   Yea, but we sure can blow it up easily enough. Bow down to the US, sucker...

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 2:16am

   
   

   So can Israel you loser.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 2:47am

   
   

   We went from Flameing of useless drivel , to blowing each other up. All over a stupid question on whether a patent is ok outside of the US.... What a world to live in.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 3:32am

   
   

   no kidding

   just like the forums, take a serious issue, or find somebody with a problem, and somebody replies with a comment, then somebody flames that person for spelling a word wrong. then somebody flames THAT person for using the wrong grammar whilst flaming someone, then someone says that the US is the best, then someone says Israel is, then somebody says everyone is a heathen, then everybody hates each other. the internet is gay now

    

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    Wolfger, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 4:21am

    
    

    Re: no kidding

    gay: adjective, Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
    No, the internet is not gay these days. It's becoming a rather dreary place with all the stupid laws and even stupider people that want in on the action.

     

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    simon says, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 4:38am

    
    

    Laws are laws

    Well pattent laws provides that in the region that pattent was made, it is covered. now, cose microsoft is based in states and produces there, doesn't matter where is sales, needs to pay up for each piece produced...
    
    as consumer needs to pay for each piece bought,
    
    piece of advice for bill, move bussiness to a tax free/ law free zone :) and share all ... so we might chose not to get windows busted... with no matter how many patches and useless SP's

     

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    bow suggar, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 5:28am

    
    

    i gonna get a patent on my bloody dna in the us and then sue every damn bitch getting chillen with my genes. that s fuckin world order aint it?

     

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    Thomason, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 6:00am

    
    

    Beyond borders

    The U.S. patent laws cover products made in the U.S. that then are exported. Also, the laws cover making in the U.S. a component that is specially made to be combined with other parts, which all together make product that would infringe a U.S. patent. For example, the patent claims a car body with a motor, so you have to have both of those to infringe. A company makes the motor in the U.S. and exports it, where it is combined with the car body. Here, Microsoft exported a component, which was combined with other components overseas, which together were all components claimed in the patent.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 8:45am

    
    

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    "Is no place safe from useless trolling?"
    
    Lighten the hell up Joe. :P
    
    INTERNT. SERIOUS BUSINESS.

     

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    stever, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 8:59am

    
    

    AT&T and Microsoft

    If Microsoft gets any money for copies of Windows installed outside of the US , then Microsoft is liable end of story.

     

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    Simon, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 9:38am

    
    

    What about pirated copies?

    Wouldn't AT&T have a case for saying Microsoft are liable for those too? After all, it's not AT&T's fault that MS can't protect their IP.

     

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    Joe Smith, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 9:39am

    
    

    Re: AT&T and Microsoft

    If Microsoft gets any money for copies of Windows installed outside of the US , then Microsoft is liable end of story.
    
    Now suppose that AT&T has not registered the patent in Europe. A competitor of Microsoft would not have to pay royalties on European sales. If Microsoft wants to write a new operating system and write it in the US or manufacture it in the US then they have to pay royalties. But if they write the operating system anywhere else in the world then they don't have to pay royalties for European sales. The problem with this type of extra-territorial protection is that it will drive design, development and production off-shore. If AT&T choses to not register in Europe then they should not be protected by the back door.

     

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    Brandon Zylstra, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 1:51pm

    
    

    steal a little and they through you in jail, steal

    If I use in the U.S. a pirated copy of Windows that I bought in Antarctica (where I presume there are no intellectual property laws), am I still guilty? I'm sure Microsoft would say so. They don't care where it was pirated or where I was when I bought it. They want their pound of flesh. So why shouldn't they have to pay when the situation is reversed? They *stole* intellectual property, and they should be fined far beyond the cost they would have paid to license it. (Otherwise the fine has no value, it's just a conveniently delayed payment, which one might well avoid if one's lawyers are clever enough, and such stealing is therefore heavily encouraged.)
    
    Similarly, if I pirate Windows and sell it overseas, they're still going to come after me, even if I sell it to penguins and scientists on the South Pole. Oh, wait, penguins all use another operating system...

     

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