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Ric Richardson is an Australian inventor. He is the holder of multiple granted patents including the Uniloc patent (US5490216 ) and the Logarex patent (6400293 ). Although he spent twelve years in California to promote and develop products produced by Uniloc, Richardson grew up in Sydney and currently resides just outside Byron Bay. He is the founder of Uniloc, a company based on the technology he first patented in 1992. The machine fingerprinting technology is used to stop copyright infringement; it was developed as Richardson worked on his own software called One-Step. He is an independent inventor with a role as founder of the online publication technology called zkimmer. Richardson began tinkering with bicycle design in the mid-1970s. Richardson and one of his brothers are the progenitors of the "shade saver", cords used to keep sunglasses on the wearer. ==Microsoft court case== Uniloc was awarded US$388 million in a lawsuit against Microsoft for their infringement of a product activation patent held by Uniloc. The application before the court to go to trial was originally blocked by a summary judgement for Microsoft. Uniloc appealed the ruling, eventually sending the case to a federal appeals court in 2008. Microsoft products Windows XP, Office XP, and Windows Server 2003 were found to infringe the Uniloc patent by a federal jury in Rhode Island.〔 They found that damages were due and Microsoft's conduct was willful. On 30 September 2009, The Melbourne Age reported that US District Judge William Smith "vacated" the jury's verdict and ruled in favour of Microsoft. This ruling was appealed and won by Uniloc. Microsoft then agreed to finally settle out of court, paying an undisclosed amount in compensation to Richardson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ric Richardson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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