[asterisk-users] Patent issues, what features we can't use?

[Watkins, Bradley]

> >
> > Horseshit.  Prior art is trivial.  How old is Hylafax?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
> >   
> It's never trivial if you're a small company. J2 has already won 
> settlements from several smaller companies, which gives it 
> precedence. 
> Once precedence is established, it's almost a done deal for future 
> lawsuits and fighting them is exponentially harder with each 
> settlement 
> they get. While it may boil down in the end to prior art, having the 
> money to fight that far in the legal system is something 
> else. A fight 
> like that would put most small businesses under, and forget about 
> getting external funding if you have this hanging over your 
> head. No one 
> wants to fund a company with a lawsuit against it.
> 
> N.

The really good news here is that the recent KSR vs. Teleflex ruling as
decided by SCOTUS gives you a fair bit of firepower in at least getting
this patent reexamined, even with the precedent.  I think that J2 would
be quite unlikely to try and push a case forward in light of this.

Regards,
- Brad