Steal this idea: university patent-infringement suits flourish. (Update).Xerox is synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as copying, but when it comes to copying patented software, that falls under infringement laws. Xerox would probably prefer to keep its name out of such references to copying, but too late for that: In a suit filed in February, the University of Texas claims Xerox has duplicated and distributed a remote printing program developed at the school. Over the last several months, a number of universities have filed similar suits against various vendors. For example, Cornell has sought legal action against HewlettPackard, for violating its patented method of boosting a computer's processing speed See MHz. . (Hewlett-Packard has allegedly used the system since 1995.) Damages from the lawsuit could reach as high as $100 million. And the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, has joined with Electronics for Imaging, Inc., in a suit against 94 companies that they say are illegally using patented image-editing software. MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seeking back payment of royalties dating from 1996. The companies named in that suit include Microsoft, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and Polaroid. |
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