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Stewguts

11/02/18 4:25 PM

#34814 RE: 4retire #34812

"If a licensee develops more stringent/stronger/more technically advanced products from the original patent, then patents them, those patents are in force and, more than likely, developed from the original formula."

Prior Art. You cannot patent Prior Art!!!
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Urbanlegend

11/02/18 4:26 PM

#34815 RE: 4retire #34812

I’m not seeing it. Stew is making an interesting point though. Who owns the copyright? HP I assume?
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4retire

11/02/18 4:27 PM

#34816 RE: 4retire #34812

That being said, Simpson sold VDK2 to other companies, even after the Ventura court ordered him to turn over the original and all derivative copies of the VDK2 codec to DFMI in 2002. Who knows?