On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:14, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > you need documents from him - papers he's submitted, lectures given, anything > else that proves he had the idea AND when it actually happened (before the > filing of the patent). the patent filing proves that 8pen's invention happened > at least when they filed it - you have to prove that their invention came > AFTEr > another and is the same > ie - prior art. you have to provide 1. it is actually prior, and 2. that it is > the same thing. for that you will need all the documentation and proof you can > get. an that means getting perlin's help. if he isn't interested in helping.. > you're pretty much SOL as you need to convince the patent office, not your > fellow hackers. :) >
I sent 2 e-mails to Perlin, still no reply from him. This is unfortunate... :S i'll try to get all the documents I can get by my own, but i guess that without Perlin's help i won't get much far... -- Daniele _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community