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Christopher M. Parrett[SMTP:chris@ab*.co*] wrote >On November 30, 1995 United States District Judge Paul Brown entered an >Injunction in the Cochran v. Uwatec et al Patent Infringement suit. > etc etc etc Seems as if Cochran might have been a bit quick with their court-room = press campaign. Before Chochran's scare tactics has the desired effect, = here information from the other horse's mouth (as usual found on = CompuServe): The code of the AIR-X was developped by Markus Mock and Ernst Voellm of = Dynatron AG of Zurich, Switzerland in close cooperation to Prof. = Buehlman, also residing in Zurich. It contains highly sophisticated data = transfer and decompression algorithms, protected by a plurality of = patents. Cochran has demanded that this ROM CODE should be handed out to = his attorneys in order to ascertain whether one of his patents, acquired = from the Australian Comerford is infringed. In this patent, which is not = infringed by Uwatec a wireless transmission of data to a display is = protected without specifying the type of transmission. The European = Patent Office has issued a decision on November 23, 1995, in which the = parallel European patent was partly invalidated and now only protects = the wireless transfer of data to a display, integral with or attached to = a divers face mask (head up display). The ALADIN Air-X is not covered by = this patent. I think there are two important points:=20 1. the injunction against Uwatec USA has been stayed by the court. 2. Uwatec USA could not produce the ROM code, because it is not in the = possession, custody or control of Uwatec USA or Uwatec AG. Dr. Michael Wallinger Uwatec's European Patent Attorney Andy
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