Re: [Patents] We are under the threat of a lawsuit : looking for help

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

you are selling in the USA ?

Bernard


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0200, Sylvain Perchaud wrote:
> Europe Shareware received this morning a letter from law firm Jenkens &
> Gilchrist where they ask us to buy a license for the US 4,698,672 patent
> of Compression Labs (the JPEG patent).
> 
> They already filed a patent infringement action on April 22 against 31
> companies (mainly large corporations such as Apple).
> 
> 
> Considering that some people on this mailing list have an "experience" of
> patent threats, we would like to know how you handle that kind of letter.
> 
> Can someone who has experience in such legal threat contact us directly
> to the following phone number :
>     
>     +33 (0) 674 758 551
> 
> or by email to my email address.
>     
> 
> 
> Our main problem is that Sony already paid them USD 16 million. They set
> a legal precedent.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> References :
> 
> How Sony paid USD 16 million for the JPEG patent :
> <http://www.europe-shareware.org/pages/brevets/newsletter4.fr.html>
> 
> 
> The US 4,698,672 patent :
> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
> Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/
> srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='4,698,672'.WKU.&OS=PN/4,698,672&RS=PN/4,698,672>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain Perchaud
> Tel : +33 (0) 674 758 551
> Fax : +33 (0) 251 280 898
> http://www.europe-shareware.org
> 

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