On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 09:46 +0100, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > Eric Wieling aka ManxPower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have NEVER seen ANY statement by a patent lawyer that the G729 > > patents are not valid in some parts of the world. All I've seen is > > non-lawyers saying that. > > Have I completely misunderstood patents? I thought they were national > -- i.e., if I patent something here, in Norway, at the Norwegian > Patent Office, I'll have a Norwegian patent, and nobody else can sell > products incorporating my idea in Norway without paying me a licence > fee. My Norwegian patent will, however, have no clout whatsoever in > the USA. In fact, I've been told by people who were supposed to know > these things, that one has to make a trade-off between the cost of > patenting an invention in N countries, and the gains one expects from > those patents. Thus, one applies for patents in those countries were > one expects large sales volumes to be possible. > > Frankly, I tend to suspect that there are a lot of little countries > where G.729 is *not* patented, because they don't have patent offices. > > I would expect, however, that G.729 is protected by some sort of > patent or other agreement covering the entire EU, and thus valid in > Norway as well. (No, we're not a member: we want self-determination, > which is why we have agreed to follow all EU rules and regulations, > without the membership privilege of taking part in writing them.)
I posted about which countries the patents where first filed for. The URL for it is... http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-October/065227.html It includes a link to the itu documents that tell you about the patents. Of course I found this which shows you the ITU treaty. http://216.119.123.56/dyn4000/dyn/docs/ITSO/tpl1_itso.cfm?location=&id=5&link_src=HPL&lang=english And guess what, Norway is a ITU treaty signor. http://216.119.123.56/dyn4000/dyn/docs/ITSO/tpl1_itso.cfm?location=&id=3&link_src=HPL&lang=english BTW, I don't know what the site names should be above, the links where found on google using words "itu treaty". -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
