Very few patents are on the light bulb. Most are on better filaments.
This highlights one reason why the system encourages people to patent
stuff. If I want to market foo, which is an improvement on bar, then
the owner of the patent on bar hopefully wants access to my improvement
foo, which entices them to cross-license.
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From: Peter Dambier [mailto:peter(_at_)peter-dambier(_dot_)de]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 8:39 PM
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Patents can be for good, not only evil
There are 2 people who own every right on computers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
and programming
http://www.agnesscott.edu/Lriddle/women/love.htm
All patents therafter are infringements of the work of these two people.
Well even those two people built on the work of other people.
Kind regards
Peter and Karin Dambier
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:02:10 -0700
"Lawrence Rosen" <lrosen(_at_)rosenlaw(_dot_)com> wrote:
Eric Burger wrote:
I specifically applied for patents underlying the technology behind
RFC 4722/RFC 5022 and RFC 4730 specifically to prevent third parties,
who are not part of the IETF process, from extracting royalties from
someone who implements MSCML or KPML.
That was a waste of your time and money. Publication of those
inventions by you, at zero cost to you and others, would have been
sufficient to prevent someone else from trying to patent them. Next
time, get good advice from a patent lawyer on how to achieve your
goals without paying for a patent.
You're obviously right in theory on this point. I wonder whether
you're right in practice. We've all seen far too many really bad
patents issued, ones where prior art is legion. The (U.S.) patent
office seems to do a far better job of searching its own databases
than it does the technical literature.
I know there are many philosophical reasons why many people oppose
software patents. But for others, there are very practical reasons:
there are too many bad patents issued. I think we can all agree that
stopping bad patents is a worthwhile goal, even if for some it's just
an intermediate goal.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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