%$&&#%#% Kodak Wins Java Lawsuit Against Sun
[ Context: Technology, Patents ]
"Kodak owns a patent which describes a way for a piece of software to "ask for help" from another application. What they are claiming is that Sun violates this patent when Java byte code uses the Java engine to run the code. This may really upset the industry, because not only Sun uses this technology for Java but ( Read more... )
"Kodak owns a patent which describes a way for a piece of software to "ask for help" from another application. What they are claiming is that Sun violates this patent when Java byte code uses the Java engine to run the code. This may really upset the industry, because not only Sun uses this technology for Java but ( Read more... )
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I mean .. Java was first conceptualized way back in '91 and the language and JVM was launched in '95 itself.
And this patent of Kodak I believe is 3 years old!!!
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The patents:
here
here
and
here
are continuations of original patents filed in 1987.
But doesn't this concept apply to languages like SmallTalk too? (talk of 1970s...)
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of course, RPC.
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