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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.
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...