so, 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" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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, [email protected] 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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