US Firm Claims Patent Win In Online Rich Media
News Balthaser, a US company, has been awarded a patent which it claims covers the design and creation of rich media applications on the Internet. Balthaser announced on Tuesday that it has been granted US patent 7,000,180 by the United States Patent...
[February 22, 2006, 17:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When a press release finishes thusly — "Either way a mouse with respects to Balthaser's size has roared and the consequences are unpredictable but important. While Europe continues to prevaricate on bringing software patents laws inline with the US...
[February 24, 2006, 16:10]
US Firm Claims Patent Win In Online Rich Media
Talkback It's possible that Balthaser may struggle to enforce its patent, because of prior art — the process where a patent is invalid if it can be proven that the innovation in question already existed before the patent was filed.
[February 26, 2006, 20:53]
