Patent Law

800 Pound Gorilla

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

In a letter from U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur to the U.S. Attorney General, regarding Micrsoft's "market dominance," in context of its acquisition of Yahoo! -

As part of its effort to dominate the high technology sector, Microsoft is seeking to fundamentally transform the treatment for those entities that infringe on the intellectual property of other innovators by minimizing the damages the victim could receive and to ensure that the potential for harassment would extended dramatically by allowing for virtually endless attacks on patent validity.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).