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"Isaac" <bigikemusic@gmail.com>Subject:
Re: Federal Circuit Court affirmed the US Patent Office Decision invalidating Freedom Scientific's patent and eliminating their claims against GW MicroDate:
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 1:31:28 pmso, it shouldn't have been issued in the first place so bring litigation
against freedom for them stealing your work of art
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <christopherh40@gmail.com>
To: <gw-info@gwmicro.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Federal Circuit Court affirmed the US Patent Office Decision
invalidating Freedom Scientific's patent and eliminating their claims
against GW Micro
> Huge congratulations to you guys, keep up the good work. Shame on you,
> Freedom Science Fiction! Ha ha ha!
>
>
> Christopher Hallsworth
>
> On 29/10/2012 13:45, dan@gwmicro.com wrote:
>> 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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against freedom for them stealing your work of art
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <christopherh40@gmail.com>
To: <gw-info@gwmicro.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Federal Circuit Court affirmed the US Patent Office Decision
invalidating Freedom Scientific's patent and eliminating their claims
against GW Micro
> Huge congratulations to you guys, keep up the good work. Shame on you,
> Freedom Science Fiction! Ha ha ha!
>
>
> Christopher Hallsworth
>
> On 29/10/2012 13:45, dan@gwmicro.com wrote:
>> 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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