2012/6/9 Asmus Freytag <[email protected]>: > People may make claims all they want, but it's a question of whether such > claims are enforceable.
But it's not up to us to test it. There's just a proposal by someone that also claims copyright and patents at the same time in the same document. If the displayed facsimile of these registrations are correct and conform, it's not in ISO or in UTC that we will test it. If someone thinks that these claims are incorrect, you'll have to use the legal procedures to the offices where these registrations were accepted. Ans as long as they are deemed valid (i.e. not proven incorrect and illegitimate), the claims are enforceable. Given the time since when they are registered, it will be hard (and costly) to prove that the registrations are invalid, and this will be true as well for the claims (about the invention). We have no other choice than to request a formal licence from that author, which is compatible with the UCS standards defended by ISO and TUC, i.e. the ISO/IEC 10646 standard and TUS. So the encoding is blocked for good reasons at the first step. Then it will be to the author to prove its use in a sizable community and not just in books all covered by a single user copyright.
