With the letter came a series of illustrations of how one Codegent app - which teaches you Chinese - had made use of this patented technology.

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This patented technology ensures that only real fingerprints are read by converting the properties of the skin into digital data which are delivered to the host computer for analysis.

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The real issue of interest is the FAT stack: and the others, like Samsung etc are all quite happily (well, OK, maybe through gritted teeth) paying Microsoft for this and other bits and pieces of patented technology.

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In this case as in others, a potential licensee has chosen to misappropriate patented technology (and take its chances in court) rather than pay for it or forebear from its use.

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Mr. Bascom may indeed have invented and patented the technology, but the costs of invention and patenting of this sort of technology are likely not anywhere near the cost of prosecuting an infringement action or defending a declaratory judgment action.

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