On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:00:16 +0100, Ian Woollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You've stopped working on it? Or presumably you are objecting to the >'based on' bit. It does depend on exactly what you consider the concept >to have been, but from 1000 feet where us mortals live, they seem >vaguely similar, but the operational details of the valving seem different. Ian - asking us for proprietary information is OK; we just say no, and explain that we do this for a living, and if you want something from us, you have to pay us for it. No harm no foul... >That wouldn't necessarily mean you haven't violated the patent >(**/5,616,005/**) though. However, the patent for the Astrid pump has >apparently expired anyway see: >http://www.uspto.gov/go/og/2001/week23/patexpi.htm so you're probably safe. ...But implying that we're violating a patent - you don't want to do that. You might make Aleta mad. You REALLY don't want to do that. -R -- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
