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re: announcement for studs1980 < The issue being having a patent means nothing at the end of the day if you cannot fight for it.............. What i am saying to you is there is NO such thing as a certainty ............... Sure QPX/IPR now hold the patents and they are valid...........The issue will always remain how do you enforce and prove your patent is being violated??? >

I'd certainly agree with you. in that ...... 'there is NO such thing as a certainty' .......

But the rewards are certainly there for those that manage to "win" .......

Here is some cases that were copied off/from the QPSX/IPR site:

http://qpsx.com.au/press-room/industry_news.html

INDUSTRY NEWS

20/04/06 AOL pays to settle patent dispute
24/04/06 Rambus wins $306 million from Hynix
20/04/06 Microsoft, Autodesk lose patent-infringement suit - to pay $133 million
19/04/06 Microsoft, Autodesk Lose $133 Million Patent Verdict
14/04/06 Jury Awards TiVo $73 Million in Patent Case
06/04/06 Lucent sues Microsoft over Xbox
05/04/06 Mary Kay Ordered to Pay Over $41 Million to TriStrata
03/04/06 General Patent is Successful in its 23rd Litigation to
Enforce Acticon's Patents
03/04/06 Acacia Technologies Licenses Multi-Dimensional Bar Code Technology to Boston Scientific
15/03/06 Sony suffers a second shock on the DualShock $91 million patent verdict

This will be an interesting year for IPR I feel.

dj