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Minelab taking XP to court over possible patent infringements
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<blockquote data-quote="Ramjet" data-source="post: 288601" data-attributes="member: 214"><p>Just saw this on the XP Group on facebook.</p><p></p><p>"Regardless of what rumors are being postulated, a few things on this thread:</p><p></p><p>1) V4.0 is delayed due to performance issues that came up at he last minute - saw them at the XP Rally in the UK and Alain is doing the right thing - holding off the release until the issue is corrected. Has nothing to do with some claimed suit which has nothing to do with the pending V4.0 functionality or HF coils.</p><p></p><p>2) The technology that XP has on the Deus was introduced in 2009 . .. that is 7 years ago. If there was something that XP "stole" from Minelab don't you think something </p><p>would have come up before XP took over the majority of the market . . . sort of the proverbial "close the barn door after the horses left" no? As far as data transfer - (the 2 way option), Minelab did not set the precedent . . . 2009 comes before 2012 so if anyone claims that the 2-way transfer for software updating was copied, it would be XP claiming Minelab took it from them.</p><p>It's interesting that for for years people have posted Minelab patents and claimed that they could reverse engineer the FBS or any other program that Minelab produces. Minelab in fact does not patent all of their code since that would make it fairly easy to alter and make other detectors. There is a reason Apple does not patent all of the OS code - to patent something you need to expose the inner workings and if you are familiar with digital copyright suits, a slight change in the code makes it something that is no longer infringement.</p><p>XP will continue pushing the envelope in terms of technology . . . . and it's doubtful it will be done by copying someone else's product."</p><p></p><p>Andy Sabisch</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ramjet, post: 288601, member: 214"] Just saw this on the XP Group on facebook. "Regardless of what rumors are being postulated, a few things on this thread: 1) V4.0 is delayed due to performance issues that came up at he last minute - saw them at the XP Rally in the UK and Alain is doing the right thing - holding off the release until the issue is corrected. Has nothing to do with some claimed suit which has nothing to do with the pending V4.0 functionality or HF coils. 2) The technology that XP has on the Deus was introduced in 2009 . .. that is 7 years ago. If there was something that XP "stole" from Minelab don't you think something would have come up before XP took over the majority of the market . . . sort of the proverbial "close the barn door after the horses left" no? As far as data transfer - (the 2 way option), Minelab did not set the precedent . . . 2009 comes before 2012 so if anyone claims that the 2-way transfer for software updating was copied, it would be XP claiming Minelab took it from them. It's interesting that for for years people have posted Minelab patents and claimed that they could reverse engineer the FBS or any other program that Minelab produces. Minelab in fact does not patent all of their code since that would make it fairly easy to alter and make other detectors. There is a reason Apple does not patent all of the OS code - to patent something you need to expose the inner workings and if you are familiar with digital copyright suits, a slight change in the code makes it something that is no longer infringement. XP will continue pushing the envelope in terms of technology . . . . and it's doubtful it will be done by copying someone else's product." Andy Sabisch [/QUOTE]
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