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More (Better) Information on the BOBJ-INFA Suit

I'll still read the court documents, but I'm finding that Vincent McBurney read it all ahead of me, commented, and linked to some of the underlying information. No need for me to repeat any of that. You can read about it in chronological order in post 1, post 2, post 3 and post 4.

I'm not sure I agree that this is the ETL "trial of the century" since I'm thinking the focus is narrower and the patent in its broadest interpretation is not enforceable. If he's right then more lawsuits will likely follow since you could read it as a patent for "modular code" and sue the crap out of everyone, rather than more narrow and specific implementation.

Patent and copyright lawsuits are the deep-vein thrombosis of the software industry. Sooner or later, one of these is going to be big enough that it causes a tech market stroke. It's bad enough that patent searches and IP lawyers are part of starting a tech company, without worrying about overly-broad patents stifling entire industries.

Posted by Mark Monday, April 02, 2007 5:05:00 PM | permalink |

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I only call it the ETL trial of the century because 1) who can remember any other ETL trials? 2) the century is only 6.2 years old! :) So I thought I was a safe hyperbole.

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