There used to be a "hall of patents" up near the lunch room in Tewksbury. I once talked to an Avid employee at NAB about five years ago who was whining that FCP had violated at least 100 of Avid's patents. ... Of course if that were true, you'd think Avid could get themselves on sound financial footing with simply some litigation. Avid has all kinds of patents on parts of the interface that you swear couldn't be patentable, but somehow they have them. I remember one of them was like the triangular shaped play button, or something crazy like that. Lots of the icons and the way the UI works has definitely been patented. Whether lawyers consulted since then have determined that those patents wouldn't hold up is another matter. Actually, I think one of the patents I remember seeing was for the way a cross dissolve was represented in the timeline.
Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:25 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.
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