[WikiEN-l] [Slightly OT] Answers sues Babylon

[Mathias Schindler]

The only fact which makes this posting not totally OT here is that
Wikimedia has both connections to Answers and Babylon. Answers.com is
using Wikipedia content on answers.com and Babylon just recently
offered Wikipedia content in their toolbox (18 month after they had
released a section of Wikipedia content for the "Olympic Games"). In
the first attempt, they failed to meet the requiremens from the GFDL.
-- Mathias

http://www.newyorkbusiness.com/news.cms?id=13132

Answers.com owner sues Israeli tech firm
by Amanda Fung

Answers Corp., the Manhattan-based creator of Answers.com, said
Wednesday that it sued an Israeli company to stop it from using
technology that links a user's computer with a central database over
the Internet.

The lawsuit, filed with the Tel-Aviv District Court, claims that
Babylon Ltd. infringed on Answers' Computerized Dictionary and
Thesaurus Applications patent. Answers got the patent in 2004, nine
years after it first applied.


http://www.tradingmarkets.com/tm.site/news/BREAKING%20NEWS/190036/
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060308/ukw014.html?.v=45