RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CPNC and Patents

As far as I know they did not. Please remember that Haas is in court all the
time for one thing or another. They have a law firm on retainer to handle
these type of problems. If it had been a one time deal then the cost would
be more toward $500,000.

TAB

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Bartholomew [mailto:bb@...]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 4:23 AM
To: cad_cam_edm_dro@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CPNC and Patents

> For what I could find out, it cost around $200,000 to fight
> Hurco. About half of what Hurco wanted to settle out of court.

Wow, that's cheap. Panels on IP law appear from time to time at
computer conferences, and the minimum price they report for an
innocent company to either defend their patent, or defend themselves
against an illegitimate patent, is "most of a million dollars".

Do you know if Haas recovered the $200K from Hurco?

Brian

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