Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] LOLpatents

2008-12-13 Thread Nicholas Riley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:15:37AM +0100, Jack Jansen wrote: > I think the various other non-Applescript OSA implementations (what > was the name of that database-like package again?) don't count as > prior art for this patent because of the "automatically build glue > classes" clause, but th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] LOLpatents

2008-12-13 Thread Hamish Allan
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Jack Jansen wrote: > Could other people share their insights too, and/or ask around? Intuitively (to me) the best time to fight would be the least expensive, which is before the fight gets into the domain of lawyers, which means before the patent is granted, whi

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] LOLpatents

2008-12-13 Thread Jack Jansen
On 13-Dec-2008, at 19:32 , has wrote: On 12 Dec 2008, at 23:41, Conan C. Albrecht wrote: IANAL, but in my watching of open source projects for many years, if you have prior work to the patent, you're fine. If they decide to sue you, you can just show that your project predates the pat

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] LOLpatents

2008-12-13 Thread has
On 12 Dec 2008, at 23:41, Conan C. Albrecht wrote: IANAL, but in my watching of open source projects for many years, if you have prior work to the patent, you're fine. If they decide to sue you, you can just show that your project predates the patent. This one was filed in 2007, so I thi

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] LOLpatents

2008-12-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-12-13 um 00:27 schrieb has: Look what I ran across today: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28scripting+AND+bridge%29.TTL.&OS=ttl/(scripting+and+bridge)&RS=TTL/(scripting+AND+bridge) I f