• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:21:18 -0800

At 05:34 PM 11/01/01 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>  I will just note that exhibiting prior art is not sufficient.
>You also need some legal action to take place before getting a
>patent removed, right ? (I would be soooo happy if I was wrong !)

If the patent holder chooses to defend it, typical legal costs to 
get one stricken down are about a million dollars. -Tim

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