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Originally posted by The Porn Dude
I wish you the best of luck. But patent law, particularly pertaining to internet technologies is going to be forged in the coming years. There are no guarantees that the courts will do the right thing. Look to the example of AOL obtaining the patent for all instant messaging. Even though IRC had the technology well before ICQ. So you cannot always count on the courts.
Anyway best of luck to you I hope you crush them like bugs.
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IRC, unlike IM isnt in realtime. That might have made a difference although i havent seen any paperworkl to know how exactly they won.