Unfortunately for Tektronics and those deluded idiots at the U.S.Pat.Off. there seems to be one or two instances of PRIOR ART…
We call it the Renaissance. See works by Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Piero della Francesca and dozens of other innovative fifteenth-century ARTISTS!
Sven
Giotto was the first painter to introduce perspective…but in his time there was no copyright…
cameyo
One would think that the Statute of Limitations would apply also. Given that there was prior 3d art displayed as 2d before 87 that patent shouldn’t have been granted anyways but even if they hold it up…15 years? I think it would be thrown out cuz they waited to long.
am wondering what would motivate a company…after waiting this long…to spend the kind of money it will take to file and go on with the law suit knowing their chances of getting any kind of settlement or decision in their favor are thinking? what’s the motive on this one? Money? if that’s the case…I hope they have a good bankruptcy attorney.
if their printers don’t sell I guess they’ll just sue some people