trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:28 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:
Have a look at this article
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005101916522254
Some of the comments are interesting.
With any luck the US will patent itself into a corner.
Yup its insane, with that ruling it wouldnt be hard for someone to
patent basically the selling of VoIP, forcing all small players under
(or pay a license fee) and the large ones to either negotiate or pay
large sums in court.
This just gives me one more reason to leave, as if I didnt have enough
already. I am just waiting for my lawsuit to be settled so I can
escape. It sucks in America, its only getting worse (the patent stuff
is just one more reason) and it wont change untill congress has more
independants elected in. 66% of congress being of like mind and
independant could change a lot of the sillyness like this patent issue,
but you will never see that. 66% can stop any filibuster, 66% can
overrule any veto, 66% can do a lot really quick. We only need 2 years
of that (the house has 2 year terms).
As long as the patent office is the way it is though I need to get on to
filing my patent on a time displaced communications system (receive
messages before they are sent, all the components are proven already
just not stable :)
I'm going to patent email and web methods for discussing patent issues.
I'm also going to patent methods of emigrating from the US to escape
inane patent laws.
You can't reply without a license from me.
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