“We think companies should dream up their own products rather than willfully copying ours, and in August a jury in California reached the same conclusion,” the statement said. "

(products?)

"The disclosure session had yielded more than a dozen potential patents when an engineer, an Apple veteran, spoke up. “I would like to decline to participate,” he said, according to the lawyer who was at the meeting. The engineer explained that he didn’t believe companies should be allowed to own basic software concepts.

It is a complaint heard throughout the industry. The increasing push to assert ownership of broad technologies has led to a destructive arms race, engineers say. Some point to so-called patent trolls, companies that exist solely to sue over patent violations. Others say big technology companies have also exploited the system’s weaknesses.

“There are hundreds of ways to write the same computer program,” said James Bessen, a legal expert at Harvard. And so patent applications often try to encompass every potential aspect of a new technology. When such applications are approved, Mr. Bessen said, “the borders are fuzzy, so it’s really easy to accuse others of trespassing on your ideas.”

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RE: 445 and the rudimentary elements harnessed within 774 / 737 software or products

For e.Digital, its not a matter of "writing the same computer program", it's a matter of a devised and written program/programs that have the ability to maintain an orderly logical overlay of memory to physical data as an operating system, by defining the logical overlay through generated header schemes devised around the data as the data is created. In other words, when a segment of data is created, that segment is generated with operating system structured issues embedded with in it. This is what eliminates the need of virtual systems like FAT. Also invented are firmware issues of BIOS that allow the orchestration of the operating system. This system is fast in writing to memory, as long as the memory has a fast enough programming ability.

They are the first to pull this off....and I'm sure no one here has any idea what the hell those comments mean....perhaps Giants might.

One would have to have an understanding of what a typical virtual operating system is, and they are written in all shapes and sizes as James Bessen considers, as compared to what e.Digital has patented.

The USPTO examiner would have to understand the difference in granting a patent such as 445.

It's not a basic software concept, and e.Digital should own ever aspect that can be devised around it.

doni