Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
Andres Paglayan wrote:
what about posting this exact question at groklaw?
Oh yes. That would work well...I'll make a post later today.
Looks like they already picked this up...
[PJ: Yes. Contact Open Invention Network and Software Freedom Law
Center. Every patent expert I have ever had the opportunity to discuss
this with says the community should patent everything in sight asap,
for defensive purposes against the drooling ghouls. Publish the rest
of what you invent with a verifiable date, if you are a purist.] -
I'll have to contact my friends over at SFLC. It's been a while since
I've said hi...
Thanks a lot for all the great comments and direction!
Sean
On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
Dear Community,
Most of you know that OpenMoko is a fully independent company at this
point. With this great opportunity comes many challenges. Today I
would like to share one with you all and ask for some advice.
We need to file patents for our hardware as well as software designs.
While my personal views on software patents are inline with people
like Eben Moglen, as a company, we are forced to play by the rules of
the game.
What I want is for a our company's patents to be freely available,
for anyone, but for defensive purposes only.
Are there any existing options available to us now? Does anyone know
of existing companies or organizations with a similar strategy that
we can seek guidance or partnership.
Again, I want to emphasize that we only want our patents to be used
in defense. And what constitutes defense is something that we want to
be able to define (and potentially even redefine when new threats
arise).
Thanks in advance for the help.
Sean
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