[mythtv-users] Patents again

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 19:13:20 UTC 2005


On Apr 8, 2005 12:02 PM, dean collins <dean at collins.net.pr> wrote:
> Thanks for that - good article
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Lonnie Borntreger
> > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 1:54 PM
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> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Patents again
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> > http://news.com.com/Patent+litigants+target
> > +DVRs/2100-1047-5659298.html?part=dht&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e703

There's a problem with that.

Hauppauge has been making TV Cards for computers since 1992. (ref:
http://www.hauppage.com/pages/aboutus.html)

Patent No. 6,674,960 (The one in question, which relates to recording
to a hard-drive) was filed in 2002, that's 10 years after Hauppauge
make a system for doing so. Therefore Patent No. 6,674,960 is moot
under the terms of "Prior Art", if I recall correctly.

No big deal here, then.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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