[mythtv-users] Patents again

[Colin Smillie]

On Apr 8, 2005 3:13 PM, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Not quite a mute point, the patent would still need to be over turned.
 Last I heard the average cost to over turn a patent was somewhere
around $2M in legal fees, in most cases not replayable. It alot of
smaller companies will be forced to pay a settlement rather than
fighting.

Some more details here:
http://www.pubpat.org/Representing.htm