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Re: WTF? said by cpsycho:I did make it a product. I bought all the pieces, put it together. I sell computers too. I even get requests to turn computers into home theater pc's. Right. Separate discrete components. Microsoft wouldn't be liable for a patent that saved a ATSC as a MPEG stream for instance because they didn't make the capture card. It's hard to infringe on a patent with a technology you don't touch.
However Microsoft could be infringing on the automatic rewind of a program when coming out of a fast forward.
I just hope their bs patent does not hold water in canada.
I wouldn't stake my business on it. I've never seen any indication that the Canadian version of the US patent wouldn't hold up as well, especially if it goes through the US patent and legal system successfully. Presuming you are a smaller shop, you likely have nothing to worry about directly as TiVO would go after the money, from the manufacturers or Microsoft, or possibly the big time computer manufacturers like HP and Dell. |
