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

[Ray Foret Jr]

So, at last, it is over then?  Good.


Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

Skype name:
barefootedray

On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:29 AM, "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> 
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