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Sun Microsystems inc.

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Sun Microsystems inc. (Sun) is a hardware and software company that has fought against software patents.

Paying Kodak for nothing

Sun paid $92 million to Kodak for protection against patents that Kodak claimed were being infringed by Sun's Java software.[1][2] Kodak originally asked for $1 billion.[3]

Paying IBM for nothing

In the 1980s, when IBM accused Sun of violating seven patents, Sun examined the patents and argued that IBM didn't have a case. The reply of IBM's lawyers was "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?" And Sun paid out.[4]

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://blogs.sun.com/Gregp/entry/are_software_patents_useful
  2. ↑ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/04/kodak_wins_java/
  3. ↑ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/07/kodak_sun_settle/
  4. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html
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