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Originally Posted by ldonyo
This should have the same success as the enforcement of the hyperlinking patent did, none. It's been too long and is far too wide-spread in its use by too many applications and the World Wide Web to have any court impose a fee on its use just because some says they own a patent.
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Particularly, when the free, unlicsenced, use has been encouraged, until it has become a defacto standard, and then the patent holder jumps up and says" now everyone who ever used it owes me money" . Irregardless of what the court decides, it is unenforcable against the end user.