On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Oliver Peters wrote:
>> 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.
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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