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Litigation

Aug. 19, 2003

Inventor's Legal Fight With Novell Seems to Be on Last Leg

Roger Billings' 12-year legal battle against software company Novell Inc. finally may be running out of steam. The inventor sued Novell in 1991, alleging that the company's client-server technology copied ideas from his patented "functionally structured distributed data processing system," which involves user computers hooking into common data centers.

By John Ryan
        Roger Billings' 12-year legal battle against software company Novell Inc. finally may be running out of steam.
        The inventor sued Novell in 1991, alleging that the company's client-server technology copied ideas from his patented "functionally structured distributed data processing system," which involves user computers...

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