[Patents] free sw removed from german website due to US swpat threats

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> (Bernard Lang)]

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            Internet Pictures Corporation IPIX
                         Jun. 8, 2001 Market Closed

 Last Sale: $ 0.67
                      Net Change: -0.01 down to 1.47%
 Today's High: $ 0.71
                      Today's Low: $ 0.66
 Best Bid: $ 0.67
                      Best Ask: $ 0.69
 Volume: 233,200
                      Previous Close: $ 0.68


They used to be at $47

maybe it is a matter of waiting ... but the principle of the issue
remains.

Bernard

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 04:46:15PM +0200, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> Under
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>  http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/daa-07.06.01-002/
>  http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch
>  http://www.ipix.com
>  http://www.cityscope.de/pp3n/index.html
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> http://listserv.fh-furtwangen.de/cgi-bin/lwgate/cgi/lwgate-en-proj.cgi/PROJ-IMIM/archives/proj-imim.archive.0106/date/article-21.html
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> you can find some info in german about the latest development about the
> Dersch v. iPIX case, see also
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>       http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta/xrani/ipix/
>       (to be updated)
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> A German math professor has backed down by removing his free image
> processing software from the web at least temporarily due to threats from
> iPIX Inc., a company that has pursued swpats agressively through US
> courts.
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> The strange thing about this is that Dersch is backing down although the
> claims from iPIX are based only on US patents.  It seems that even without
> further extensions of the Hague Convention jurisdictions are already
> sufficiently blurred to allow US patents to terrorise European software
> developpers who are only publishing web pages without pursuing any
> business activities in the US.
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