>>But according to Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AST_Research> >>as of early 2011, the dormant AST trademark appears to be being >>relaunched by a new, independent company named DATA ACCESS based in >>France. I don't know if that means they purchased the previous >>copyrights (Beny Alagem, founder of Packard Bell Electronics, bought >>the name and intellectual property of AST Research, Inc. in 1999.) > > Saw this too, and I have the strange feeling that this is just > another "cyber squatter"...
Yes, and those guys always worry me. They are similar to "patent trolls", who buy up patent portfolios, then sue people who infringe on them. I don't know anything about DATA ACESS, but maybe they are an "IP troll" who bought AST's intellectual property portfolio to do something like that. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
