On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 06:13 -0400, Paul wrote: > 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. > That isnt the primary reason, its just one in a long list :)
> You can't reply without a license from me. I just filed a disclosure document so I beat you to it, and have 2 years to acutally patent it. :P But seriously with the way the patent stuff is getting, especially what I read on groklaw, it is entirely possible to patent selling softgoods like voip. Small companies cant fight that when so many of those patent holders are fairly well funded companies that do nothing but file patents on anything they can get away with. That makes it really hard to operate a business with any service in America (afaik no other government allows such sillyness to that extent). There is getting to be a real need to form a trade association to protect the ability to offer that. With many of the patents that exist on VoIP technologies already (do you have enough to fight sprint-nexttel with their 'about 100 patents' ? What about the German company?). Some of these patents are vague enough that combined it would seem that any packetization of voice onto a data network would qualify. Scary thought in my opinion because it makes it such that using asterisk for non-commerical uses in your own home, either just for fun or as an answering machine on steroids, can potentially get you into legal hot water. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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