Have you ever seen Avid's wall of patents at their headquarters? 200 easy.
On 3/7/11, Philip Hodgetts <philip@intelligentassistance.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Oliver Peters wrote:
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>>> Posted by: Philip Hodgetts
>>> Well, technically it was Macromedia that found a way around the dual
>>> monitor patent.
>>
>> Are you guys sure there's a patent or even copyright on this? Premiere 5
>> predated Macromedia/FCP/KeyGrip and had this design. When I saw it at the
>> time at a trade show, I immediately questioned an Avid exec why they had
>> never protected this GUI design. His response was one of looking at his
>> shoes.
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> I don't know for sure about the patent. I've heard it said so often, I
> figured it must be true.
>
> OTOH, I was told a couple of years back that folk within Avid believed that
> Final Cut Pro contravened about 200 of Avid's patents. Does Avid have 200
> patents? (Probably)
>
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