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Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:57:45 -0600
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Shane Ronan <sronan () fattoc com> wrote:
The real question is why Patent something?
Patents are a good source of revenue for companies that invest a lot on R&D and to create "intellectual property" (well sometimes not that much). As far as I know in the US you can patent any "original idea" (even the best approach to catch brain farts with a spoon) regardless of its application, usability, stupidity or interoperability. Some companies need to keep their attorneys entertained, but if by a chance you happen to "use" somebody else "original idea" in your product, the inventor of the "original idea" has the right to block you (many file patents just for that) to use the idea or request the payment of royalties until the protection expires (17 or 20 years after filing depending if it was after or before 1995, some design patents expire in 14 years) and you in theory are able to use the idea but probably it will be to old. Jorge
Current thread:
- Patents, IETF and Network Operators Abhishek Verma (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Christopher Morrow (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Jorge Amodio (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Scott Brim (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Jorge Amodio (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Scott Brim (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Shane Ronan (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Jorge Amodio (Jan 21)
- RE: Patents, IETF and Network Operators George Bonser (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Jorge Amodio (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Steven Bellovin (Jan 21)
- Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators Randy Bush (Jan 21)