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The eve of the war
Matthew Aslett, October 12, 2007 @ 11:14 am ET“…across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
The South East Texas Record reports that a company called IP Innovation LLC has filed suit against Red Hat and Novell for infringement of US Patent No 5,072,412, which covers “a User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects”.
As you might expect, Groklaw has the paperwork, and is already joining the dots to make a link to Microsoft. The search for prior art has begun.
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[...] Not surprisingly, the tech press is all over the patent infringement suit that IP Innovation filed last week against Red Hat and Novell. News.com’s Matt Asay is among the conspiracy theorists. The 451 Group’s Matthew Aslett implies an analogy to “War of the Worlds” with the opening words of his post on the subject. Here at IT Business Edge, editor in chief Kachina Dunn and analyst Rob Enderle each added their two cents’ worth to go along with my previous post.) [...]