Bill Thoen wrote:
Christopher Schmidt wrote:
Er, that blog is written by Richard Fairhurst.
http://www.systemeD.net/blog/about.html
Oops! Sorry about that. Too many windows open at the same time, I guess
I lost track. Probably explains the double post too. Thanks for catching
that.
Ta
Christopher Schmidt wrote:
Er, that blog is written by Richard Fairhurst.
http://www.systemeD.net/blog/about.html
Oops! Sorry about that. Too many windows open at the same time, I guess
I lost track. Probably explains the double post too. Thanks for catching
that.
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patent attempts,
> but we in doing so we all need to be careful of making any hasty or
> unfounded allegations.
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.
You might be surprised what people might be able t
You might be surprised what people might be able to get away with,
though. There's been repeated attempts to patent "web mapping" for
example, and if it wasn't for the efforts of a few dedicated people,
there would now be patents in both Britain and the USA on displaying
maps over the web. But
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:14:10AM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> You might be surprised what people might be able to get away with,
> though. There's been repeated attempts to patent "web mapping" for
> example, and if it wasn't for the efforts of a few dedicated people,
> there would now be pat
Well there are all kinds of nonsensical patents on the books but a lot of
them are never enforced. I don't see how the web mapping patent would
fulfill the non-obvious requirement- but there are a lot of stupid courts
out there.
- bri
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Bill Thoen wrote:
> You mig
You might be surprised what people might be able to get away with,
though. There's been repeated attempts to patent "web mapping" for
example, and if it wasn't for the efforts of a few dedicated people,
there would now be patents in both Britain and the USA on displaying
maps over the web. But
I've seen legends similar to that before; afraid I can't offer anything
solid in terms of prior art examples but it's hardly as revolutionary as
they seem to think.
Pretty absurd if you ask me;
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:34 AM, "René A. Enguehard" wrote:
> I suspect they might be applying for the pa
I suspect they might be applying for the patent but in for quite a
surprise when it gets rejected. Features for maps would be very tricky
to patent and, more importantly, not in the interest of the general
public. As such the patent applications would probably get rejected.
Would we really want
Landon Blake wrote:
The latest issue of the ACSM Bulletin had an interesting article about a
map matrix that wraps around the edge of a paper map. It seems the
company that is using this feature of hard copy map design is applying
for a patent. I didn’t even think you could get a patent a featu
The latest issue of the ACSM Bulletin had an interesting article about a
map matrix that wraps around the edge of a paper map. It seems the
company that is using this feature of hard copy map design is applying
for a patent. I didn't even think you could get a patent a feature of a
paper map. It go
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