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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>>But how many figured it out for themselves??
>Me, for one.  A friend of mine, for another, who knows nothing about
>computers (I explained what byte order was to her, and that different
>machines have different byte order, then asked her how she would solve the
>problem of having different byte-sex machines talking to each other.  She
>came up with a standard byte order and telling the other machine what your
>byte order is so that it can swap [or vice versa]).

This bodes well, then, if Mark Williams takes Sun to court; if people NOT
skilled in the art figure it out so easily, then the judge and jury should
surely determine that someone skilled in the art would regard it as obvious,
and perhaps the court will nail Mark Williams with a hefty fine (a couple
of years ago, Congress passed a law enabling punitive fines to be levied
against companies which use obviously bogus patents to extort money by
threats of court actions; some trade rag (EE Times?) recently mentioned the
first application).