From: jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>,
gene.heskett@verizon.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:55:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42274F87.6020100@utah-nac.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0503031733550.10844@pentafluge.infradead.org>
James Simmons wrote:
>>Patent law in the US is based on section 113 of the United States
>>Constitution, and patents
>>are not going away. Live with guys. The best way to win the patent
>>wars is for people
>>who do Linux development to file their own patents and put some stakes
>>in the ground.
>>
>>
>
> I have to agree with you. We need to apply for our own patients. The
>problem is it cost to lay down patents. Who is going to pay?
> As for the US Patent laws based on the constitution. That is no longer
>the case. The Patent laws where changed when NAFTA and GATT went into
>effect. Now the patent laws are changing again to meet WTO standards. The
>whole planet is moving over to one universal set of patent laws. Those are
>the laws to watch for. In fact India last month changed there own patent
>laws to match WTO requirements. The WTO is not going away and they have
>billons of dollars and world goverments behind them.
>
>
Linus and friends need to find some legal resources to pay for the
patent execution.
This software freedom law center should foot the bill.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-03 17:55 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
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 [this message]
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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