[gui-talk] Fwd: Federal Circuit Court affirmed the US Patent Office Decision invalidating Freedom Scientific's patent and eliminating their claims against GW Micro

[Mike Arrigo]

That was definitely a long time coming. Freedom science fiction got 
what was coming to them, that law suit never should have been filed in 
the first place. First they sued Serotek and then GW-micro. This is one 
reason among others why I will never purchase or recommend Freedom 
Scientific products, especially when their are much better products 
available. A part of me thinks that GW-Micro should counter sue to 
recover the costs associated with this, but I guess in a way that would 
make them no better. At least Justice was served. The bible has 
something very good to say about things like this. I'm paraphrasing 
here, but, basically it says that those who try to ensnare and trap 
others by digging a hole will fall in to it themselves. I'd say that's 
what happened here.
Original message:
> The following message appeared on several of GW Micro's public lists 
> yesterday.  Reference is made to a large MP3 file that can be
> downloaded to hear the arguments.  Some had trouble finding the file 
> from the URL provided, so later this URL was provided to get
> more closely to the MP3 file:

> http://oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov/default.aspx?fl=2012-1145.mp3

> ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE==================

> From: gw-news at gwmicro.com [mailto:gw-news at gwmicro.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:46 AM
> To: gw-news at gwmicro.com
> Subject: Federal Circuit Court affirmed the US Patent Office Decision 
> invalidating Freedom Scientific's patent and eliminating
> their claims against GW Micro

> In July of 2008 on my first day back in the office after the Sight 
> Village conference, someone entered our office and handed me a
> summons and notification of a lawsuit brought on by Freedom Scientific 
> against GW Micro.  They received a patent for certain
> screen reader features and our response was that Window-Eyes had those 
> same basic features several years prior to their patent.
> This was the beginning of a long waste of time and money, which finally 
> came to a close last week.  GW Micro is vindicated - it's
> over - the court decided in our favor!

> I won't provide all the details but in general, the Patent Office 
> reexamined their patent at our request and found it to be
> invalid in view of prior art.  Both the patent examiner and the Board 
> of Appeals in the Patent Office came to the same conclusion
> - the patent is invalid.  Despite those results, they asked for a 
> federal court to review the decision and again they came to the
> same conclusion as everyone else.  You may listen to this final 
> argument by going to http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/oral-argument-
> recordings/search/audio.html search for Appeal 2012-1145, listen to the 
> MP3 file and you will easily come to the same conclusion
> as everyone else.  Their original patent should not have been granted 
> in the first place and without the patent, there are no
> grounds for their lawsuit against GW Micro.  If you decide to listen to 
> that file, you should be aware that it is a large file,
> which will take some time to download.

> We want to thank you all for the many words of encouragement, support 
> and prayers that we've received over these past 4 years.
> Not one person ever suggested that we should do anything other than 
> fight and defend ourselves.  However, the sad fact is that
> actions like this hurt all of us.  This caused a waste of dollars and 
> time for both our companies, which could have been spent
> improving existing products and developing new ones.

> GW Micro chooses to take the path of creating new products, features 
> and innovations and our recent release of our Window-Eyes 8
> public beta illustrates that perfectly.  If you haven't done so 
> already, I hope you will give it a try.  Simply doing that will
> show your support of GW Micro.  We promise to continue to work hard and 
> conduct business in an honest and proper fashion.  The
> reputation of GW Micro will never be litigation instead of innovation.

> ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================




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