Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:03:02 AM
http://www.burst.com/new/newsevents/articles/IP%20Law&Business.htm
the article is a year old but goes back to the beginning.
my favorite part...
"Many observers may see Burst as the new NTP, Inc., the company that wrangled a $613 million settlement from the maker of the BlackBerry. There may be some truth to this: Some of Lang's crucial patents expire within the next few years, and those patents have more than a few critics. In a blog post that is now infamous among Burst followers, former Apple executive Charles Wiltgen, who headed the company's QuickTime division in the 1990s, called the patents "streaming snake oil," writing, "Burst.com is one of the last vestiges of the P.T. Barnums that contributed to the terminal overinflation of the Internet bubble." (Now a consultant, Wiltgen says he stands by those comments.)
On the other hand, many of Burst's patents run longer than 10,000 words each, and have been cited as prior art in more than 200 later patents. In 2001, for example, Apple applied for a patent on "reliable real-time transport protocol" that included prior art references to nine Burst patents--indicating at the very least that Apple was aware of Burst's IP five years ago. This February, the PTO issued the patent."
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