RE: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-29 Thread Lawrence Rosen
, 2007 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: When is using patented technology appropriate? Lawrence Rosen wrote: Steven Bellovin wrote: Right. Any IPR policy has to acknowledge the fact that relevant patents can be owned by non-troll non-participants. (Too many

Re: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-25 Thread Keith Moore
Lawrence Rosen wrote: Steven Bellovin wrote: Right. Any IPR policy has to acknowledge the fact that relevant patents can be owned by non-troll non-participants. (Too many negatives there -- what I'm saying is that IETFers don't know of all patents in the space, and there are real patent

Re: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-24 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon == Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson wrote: I would even consider a requirement that in order to move beyond Proposed Standard, a protocol needs to have a

Re: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Sam Hartman wrote: However I feel there is something pathalogical going on in the open source community surrounding patents. People are willing to use technologies that probably have patents but are unwilling to use technologies that clearly have patents and that have a

Re: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-24 Thread Sam Hartman
Simon == Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon == Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson wrote: I would even consider a requirement that in order

Re: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-10-25 04:30, Sam Hartman wrote: ... Simon If you replace IBM with 'A Patent Troll', do you think the Simon same holds? I think that such behavior should be presumed not to be a patent troll. Patent trolls are not known forpromising to give away royalty-free licenses. They

Re: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-24 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:15:55 +1300 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-25 04:30, Sam Hartman wrote: ... Simon If you replace IBM with 'A Patent Troll', do you think Simon the same holds?I think that such behavior should Simon be presumed not to be a

RE: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-24 Thread Lawrence Rosen
; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: When is using patented technology appropriate? On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:15:55 +1300 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-25 04:30, Sam Hartman wrote: ... Simon If you replace IBM with 'A Patent Troll', do you think Simon the same

Re: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-23 Thread Ted Hardie
It seems to me that in some sense that disclosing a patent should not make us less willing to use something. This is especially true when the disclosing party is not obligated to make the disclosure. Disclosing a patent along with an implication that the patent will be enforced or that the

Re: When is using patented technology appropriate?

2007-10-23 Thread Sam Hartman
Ted == Ted Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to me that in some sense that disclosing a patent should not make us less willing to use something. This is especially true when the disclosing party is not obligated to make the disclosure. Disclosing a patent along