In the light of recent events, I want to make this plea explicit and
widely distributed:
http://www.metaverseink.com/blog/?p=30
No need to panic, the project is not in danger. But it became clear to
me that we need to raise awareness of this issue, so that people in this
community stop and
Diva,
Excellent blog post!! Investors/business managers are always looking to
stop innovation by attempting to file patents, and bring the open-source
community to an end. Thank-you for the wonderful post.
Mark
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:15 AM, d...@metaverseink.com wrote:
Excellent post. I wonder what people think of the approach of creating
prior art in the near term. Think of what is likely to be needed,
and get rough implementations/prototypes out there. I am thinking
of Diva's point of code fast. It makes me think put lots of stakes
in the obvious ground
It's too late for that - and as someone pointed out, intentionally
breaching a patent qualifies for triple damages. Attempts to code fast
before the patent is issued would be interpreted as exactly that.
Unfortunately, the ball is in the patent office's court now. Prior art
can be submitted
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:23:40PM -0700, Frank Nichols wrote:
It's too late for that - and as someone pointed out, intentionally
breaching a patent qualifies for triple damages. Attempts to code fast
before the patent is issued would be interpreted as exactly that.
I don't think that's
Some history may be in order here; I wont drag you through each and every
phase of virtual world development, but I can tell you that googling
'virtual worlds' turns up prior art for almost everything we do (or will do)
with opensim, dating back to the late 1970s.
It may not be widely known by
What exactly is going on?
Did someone apply for a patent? Are ANY patents pending? If so, please let
us know what patents are currently pending, so we can at least look them
over and contest them.
I've had virtual worlds running since 1991, with 3D shopping malls, online
e-commerce, etc.
I'd
Guys, I've said this before.
DO NOT POST PATENTS ON THIS MAILING LIST.
AVOID LOOKING AT THEM IF POSSIBLE.
Everyone who looks at them is now liable for wilful infringement if they submit
code around that area after looking at it.
Regards,
Adam
From: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de
Sometimes companies submit a patent application just to cover their
rear-ends. They may not even expect to get the patent, but don't want
to be dragged into court later because someone else got a patent - ie.
Microsoft losing the xml case for MS Word 2007.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Frisby,
Although I don't know all the details on how this works, I know patents are
horrible thing that should not exist, and people use them in ways that should
never be allowed. I dearly hope Opensim will never have to face such dangers,
and that it will always stay clear of these things. I guess
Patents are just used by patent troll lawyers, that spend their time just
screwing with people (and corporations) by threatening with expensive
litigation/law suits.
These companies/managers just apply for patents on just about anything, and
after looking at this past patent application, I'm
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark Malewski mark.malew...@gmail.com wrote:
...
I'm extremely disappointed that IBM would stoop to such a low level. Large
corporations seem to do a good job using teams of lawyers to just create
these silly blanket patents, and shot gun approach to patents.
The best thing that IBM can do is donate the patents they hold to
the Community to that those patents off the table unless somebody
decides to get skunky.
Yeah, I agree. Donate the patents to a non-profit organization (third party
alliance) and then take the whole patent game out of this.
That
The whole patent process is screwed up, and it's only getting worse. The
proposed changes (in 2009 Patent Reform) would turn the United States into a
Patent legal nightmare.
At least as a current first to invent country, we don't have to deal with
as much of the silly nonsense from large
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