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Neil Williams wrote: | | "The patent was intended to only apply to printhouses but it is phrased and was | granted on the CLAIMS and therefore could be used to extract punitive fees | wherever a print manager is installed."
It couldn't be used for that purpose, because there was extensive prior art, and the lawyers would die laughing.
What is sad here is a company spent good money paying for a worthless bit of paper, can't help feeling the legal department was striving to justify their head count, or some such.
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