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Article #72400Re: Let me get this straight. Creating blends is now illegal thanks to Macromedia victory in court?
From: Richard Baron
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 10:49
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 10:49
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I think you're getting too worked up over this. While I'm not a patent attorney, I am a lawyer, and I have won my share of injunctions. Any injunction would probably just bar Adobe from selling new copies of AI 10 with the infringing features. Injunctions are not supposed to be issued if the harm to the public outweighs the injured right, and their scope is supposed to be restricted when innocent peopled are affected. Since present users did nothing "wrong", it would be unfair to punish them. The more likely result is that the Court will allow Adobe some time to create a legal replacement.
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