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February 4, 2008
800 Pound Gorilla
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.
Posted by Patent Hawk at February 4, 2008 2:46 PM | The Patent System