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Intellectual Property Analysis of Uniloc Software Registration System Patent Referenced in Lawsuit with Sony, McAfee, et. al.

This week’s Patently Obvious report focuses on the patent holdings of Uniloc. On July 29, 2010, Uniloc USA, Inc. filed a lawsuit against seven software companies including Activision Blizzard, Sony Corporation of America, and McAfee, Inc., alleging infringement of a Uniloc USA patent describing a system for software registration. Uniloc filed a similar suit against Microsoft in 2003.

This report focuses on patents of interest which predate and are concurrent to the Uniloc patent, including public-domain alternatives.

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