Gentlemen,
I thank all.
Have learned much, will chat with a patent lawyer .. fearing the cost will
be prohibitive.
cheers,
Graham
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From: "John Gilmore" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: OT: IBM #1 in number of patents for 2012. It's 20th year in a
row to do so.
There are two issues that I tried to disentangle and which Charles
appears to be confounding, at least in part.
One, the less interesting, is that of what constitutes the act of
formally copyrighting something, what, minimally, one must to to
copyright something.
The other is that of what it is prudent to do if one wishes to avoid
extended litigation of the sort that only a few very large entities
can afford (and the outcomes of which even the ablest lawyers have
some difficulty predicting). It is in this context that attempting to
protect oneself in minimalist fashion is unwise.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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