Steve, That may indeed be accurate, but I did some poking of my own on a random selection of 10 of the patents, and my thoughts are similar to Mike J's - it appears as nothing more than the shotgun approach with vaguely - at best - applicable patents and a whole bunch of saber rattling. The real question is, who are the targets of BT, and whether there is any real liability for any of us. Just like with the old SCO "linux licensing" scam, at the moment I'd be just as inclined to ignore threats from BT as I would from SCO. -Yossi On 04/30/2013 11:57 AM, Steve Underwood wrote:
I'm pretty sure the IEEE had not published any SIP specs at the time those BT patents were applied for.
Steve
On 05/01/2013 12:04 AM, Andrew Cassidy wrote:
The IEEE publication of the SIP Protocol pre-dates ALL of the patents presented on BT's page.
On 30 April 2013 16:33, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org <mailto:msc@freeswitch.org>> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Michael Jerris <mike@jerris.com <mailto:mike@jerris.com>> wrote:
I picked some random ones and read through them and a bunch of them don't seem to have a lot to do with sip at all. Seems like quite a scattershot to me.
My thoughts exactly. Sounds like typical "look at all our patents" bravado. I hope the GOOG takes 'em down a notch. -MC
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