Ldy <ldy@yahoo.com> wrote or quoted:
If in 1995 Sun Microsystems, Inc. changed the name of OAK to Java and
modified the code for the Internet, how did Sun infringe the patents
Kodak acquired from 'Wang' in 1997? What damning evidence did Kodak have
that in 1995, Sun incorporated the 'Khoyi' method, thereby infringed the
patents?
The 'Khoyi' method appears to be very general. Practically every OO
language appears to infringe it.
Presumably a defense involving invoking Smalltalk failed, however.
The "Khoyi patents", named after Dana Khoyi - an ex-Wang engineer,
"covered a method by which a program can get help from another computer
application to complete a task", which they claim is the way Java
operates and that Sun has therefore infringed the Khoyi patents..
Whose intellectual property is Java? Surely Java was patented in 1995,
just after the change?
Simple to check that - just visit:
http://www.sun.com/legal/patents/
Were the Wang 'Khoyi' patents and Sun 'Java' patents identical? I take
it Wang patented their software years before Sun did? Does anyone know
what year?
US Patent 5,206,951 filed: 1991-04-03
US Patent 5,206,951 granted: 1993-04-27
If the two were identical or similar, isn't it possible that in a world
of 6,395,379,218 people, it is more than likely that two or more people
might have the same ideas?
Sure. If you have the idea after the original idea was patented,
you are supposed to perform a patent search - and then pay license
fees if you want to do any development based on the idea.
How did Kodak prove that Sun had access to its patents?
Patents are public. Under law, it is the re-inventer's responsibilty to
research them, when pursuing an idea.
