From: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:46:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050304194653.GA20993@zero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503030121.08778.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:21:08AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> It brings up another sore point with me. I'm of the opinion that both
> copyright, and patent, should be granted to the author/inventor on a
> non-transferable basis. He could then sell rights to use it for a
> set period of time, at the end of which it is still his. The
You can already license patents, it's done all the time. There's no need for
the government to restrict the rights of patents holders to sell all their
rights, if they choose to.
--
Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-04 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-03 2:36 [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609] Jeff V. Merkey
2005-03-03 3:27 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-03 4:28 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-03-03 6:21 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-03 10:03 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-03-03 10:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-03-03 11:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-03 15:42 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-03-04 19:46 ` Tom Vier [this message]
2005-03-03 10:26 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-03-03 15:48 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-03-03 16:03 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-03-03 16:49 ` jmerkey
2005-03-03 17:39 ` James Simmons
2005-03-03 17:55 ` jmerkey
2005-03-03 20:11 ` Trever L. Adams
2005-03-03 20:31 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-03-04 11:05 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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