[slikom] Tuzimo se, tuzimo se...

From: "Gradimir Kragic" <bastono@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Lista SliKom" <slikom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:14:28 +0100
Federal Circuit Court affirmed the US Patent Office Decision invalidating 
Freedom Scientific\'s patent and eliminating their claims against GW Micro
    Zdravo svima,

    Ovih dana nesto su tuzbe ili pretnje tuzbama vrlo popularne... Ma nismo mi 
sa ovih lista tu nesto posebni, tuze se i drugi. Evo, danas je GW Micro 
saopstio da je dobio spor protiv Freedom Scientific, jednostavnije receno 
Window-Eyes i JAWS su se sporili cetiri godine. Sud je odlucio, GW Micro je u 
pravu, odnosno tuzba protiv njega nije opravdana. Ispod je tekst na Engleskom 
jeziku, nadam se da ce vas vase znanje Engleskog jezika posluziti ili ce vam 
"maestroTranslator" pomoci da shvatite ovaj tekst. Zakljucak je da je 
nepotrebno izgubljeno vrijeme i novac.

    Pozdrav, Gradimir.
  

From: gw-news@xxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:45 PM
Subject: Federal Circuit Court affirmed the US Patent Office Decision 
invalidating Freedom Scientific's patent and eliminating their claims against 
GW Micro



In July of 2008 on my first day back in the office after the Sight Village 
conference, someone entered our office and handed me a summons and notification 
of a lawsuit brought on by Freedom Scientific against GW Micro.  They received 
a patent for certain screen reader features and our response was that 
Window-Eyes had those same basic features several years prior to their patent.  
This was the beginning of a long waste of time and money, which finally came to 
a close last week.  GW Micro is vindicated - it's over - the court decided in 
our favor!

I won't provide all the details but in general, the Patent Office reexamined 
their patent at our request and found it to be invalid in view of prior art.  
Both the patent examiner and the Board of Appeals in the Patent Office came to 
the same conclusion - the patent is invalid.  Despite those results, they asked 
for a federal court to review the decision and again they came to the same 
conclusion as everyone else.  You may listen to this final argument by going to 
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/oral-argument-recordings/search/audio.html search 
for Appeal 2012-1145, listen to the MP3 file and you will easily come to the 
same conclusion as everyone else.  Their original patent should not have been 
granted in the first place and without the patent, there are no grounds for 
their lawsuit against GW Micro.  If you decide to listen to that file, you 
should be aware that it is a large file, which will take some time to download.

We want to thank you all for the many words of encouragement, support and 
prayers that we've received over these past 4 years.  Not one person ever 
suggested that we should do anything other than fight and defend ourselves.  
However, the sad fact is that actions like this hurt all of us.  This caused a 
waste of dollars and time for both our companies, which could have been spent 
improving existing products and developing new ones.

GW Micro chooses to take the path of creating new products, features and 
innovations and our recent release of our Window-Eyes 8 public beta illustrates 
that perfectly.  If you haven't done so already, I hope you will give it a try. 
 Simply doing that will show your support of GW Micro.  We promise to continue 
to work hard and conduct business in an honest and proper fashion.  The 
reputation of GW Micro will never be litigation instead of innovation.


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