US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, July 14, 2005 [ruling upholding a lower court decision that Microsoft Corp. was liable for infringing on an AT&T Corp. patent for converting speech into computer code in copies of Windows operating system sold abroad]. Excerpt:
Microsoft’s impassioned recitation of a parade of horribles that may befall the domestic software industry — such as the relocation of manufacturing facilities overseas — provides an insufficient basis for reaching a different result in this case.
Read the full text of the opinion
here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST’s
Paper Chase here.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
