bjcolt wrote:
As a musician I have to deal with
the copyright law fairly extensively and when it comes to place markers
as in this case the area is so grey it is unbelievable. A place marker
has been used for decades in determining where a person sits at a table,
and of course I remember it being used in school to keep our places in a
book, long before FS took on the name.
Generally, "place marker" would be a trademark not a copyright. However,
what's at issue in this case is not the phrase "place marker", and
indeed not trademarking or copyright at all, but an entirely different
type of intellectual property: patents of inventions, namely Freedom
Scientific's patent for a method for adding place markers to web page.
Here's some general background on what patents are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent
You can read the full details of the patent in question at:
http://tinyurl.com/6zjt5t
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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