Hey Daniele :) > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 16:00, David Lanzendörfer > <david.lanzendoer...@o2s.ch> wrote: > >>I don't know, patent office perhaps is french, we could contact it. > > I think so. > > Because its written in French ^^ > > > >>Anyway i didn't find a suitable contact in fsf.org for these kind of > >>things, is it enough to send a mail to a generic address? I don't > >>want to bother them... > > Uhmm. Good question. > > I fear that an email is not enough: > > http://www.epo.org/patents/appeals.html > > You have to appeal against the pending patent formaly. > > So we will need to write an appeal letter to the european patent > > office... :-/ > > > >>I'm looking forward to be able to push my implementation, it would > >>be a shame that i am the only one that can use it on > >>Linux/Freerunner. > > Yes. But we have to defeat people who wanna make patents for e.g. > > the wheel before we can make free software ;-) > > > > best regards > > leviathan > > > > ======== NOTE ========= > I think it's the 40th time i write this: PLEASE REPLY ALL!!!! I am in > digest mode, replying all is always a good practice and doesn't cost > anything. Thank you > ===== END OF NOTE ===== > > I have a question at this point: people wants to patent the wheel, but > wheels get built everyday by anyone who wants to. So what is stopping > us from doing the same 8pen idea but open source? Nobody will ever > make money on it, so i guess it's nothing to lose for the company that > originally implemented the 8pen. Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Or we could look into porting code or ideas from qwo to java/android (qwo speaks c/x11). Destroying his market might be a way to make him lose interest in this patent application.
I am also tempted to mail the person(s?) behind 8pen addressing my concerns about his attempt to patent the idea, maybe even challenge his position stating that I would not recognize his claim. I believe the company is based in France (information is a scarce resource on both the 8pen and the companies (3qubits) one, I did a whois query). I'd be very interested whether such a patent is enforceable within the EU... Would anybody care to join me on this one? We could create a message or a message template and ask everyone send this message to the person behind the 8pen (crowdsourcing seems to be the catchy phrase for this approach...). Cheers, Justus
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