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Can't we take winamp's initial release from April 21, 1997, add 1 year for late filing, and say anything it did is unencumbered by April 21, 2017? (Let's ignore patents filed before June 8, 1995 and issued later, since we're approaching the end of those, I hope)


If you can demonstrate standing and pay a lawyer a ton of money, then yes, you could argue that.


WinPlay3 was released by Fraunhofer themselves in September 1995.




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