Re: Do procmail and spamassassin violate this "patent"?

> Last year a company (K.C.) received 12 patents on various aspects of
> dimming LEDs using an ANSI standard dimming protocol/method. Their claim
> is they invented the idea of dimming LEDs using the same dimming method
> used for incandescent lamps and that it wasn't obvious that an LED could
> be dimmed.
>
> So far, the patents haven't been overturned, but they haven't also have
> sued anyone like Nokia for having dimmed LEDs in their phone keypads...

And they won't, because the Color Kenetics patents relate to producing colored light for specific purposes (like lighting buildings, and stages, and TV shows, and kitchens) that don't include keypads. Now, if a bunch of kids do an experimental movie on Youtube that is lit by their cel phone keypads, CK will probably sue them. They have certainly sued about as many people as the music industry at this point.

And while there was strong hope that these idiot patents would be invalidated outside the US, that hope evaporated a couple months ago when Philips bought a big hunk of them.

Which is kinda off-topic here.

        Loren Received on Thu Aug 30 19:00:11 2007