FYI -- This involves the two leading screen reader companies in our field.
Freedom Scientific has sued GW Micro for infringing a patent that FS filed
on the placemarker feature of a JAWS virtual web page.  A blog article
that supplies the legal text is

"Freedom Scientific Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against GW Micro"
http://blog.blindaccessjournal.com/

The technical text of the patent claim is

"United States Patent: 6993707"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fn
etahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%226,993,707
+B2%22&OS=

An initial response by GW Micro is

"Do companies really compete on who has the best lawyers?"
http://www.gwmicro.com/blog/

The FS web site does not appear to mention the suit at this time.

I encourage people to become informed about this, and to express their
views through appropriate channels.

Regards,
Jamal

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