[Athen] FW: Freedom Scientific suit against GW Micro

[Terry Thompson]

Interesting news... 

-----Original Message-----
From: uaccess-l-admin at trace.wisc.edu [mailto:uaccess-l-admin at trace.wisc.edu]
On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 6:00 AM
To: guispeak at freelists.org; program-l at freelists.org;
uaccess-l at tracecenter.org
Subject: [UACCESS-L] Freedom Scientific suit against GW Micro

FYI -- This involves the two leading screen reader companies in our field.
Freedom Scientific has sued GW Micro for infringing a patent that FS filed
on the placemarker feature of a JAWS virtual web page.  A blog article that
supplies the legal text is

"Freedom Scientific Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against GW Micro"
http://blog.blindaccessjournal.com/

The technical text of the patent claim is

"United States Patent: 6993707"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fn
etahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%226,993,707
+B2%22&OS=

An initial response by GW Micro is

"Do companies really compete on who has the best lawyers?"
http://www.gwmicro.com/blog/

The FS web site does not appear to mention the suit at this time.

I encourage people to become informed about this, and to express their views
through appropriate channels.

Regards,
Jamal