Agreed. Panoramic photos in themselves are not patentable as they have been around for some time.
I don't understand your second statement. With regards to iPiX and Photosphere, that was interesting. iPiX did sue photographers then were sued and settled with Pictosphere. iPiX then licensed Pictosphere's patent, went bankrupt and Pictosphere bought much of iPiX's remains. Now if you go to ipix.com, you get a page describing the virtues of Oxaal's patent portfolio. It is all a big mess. On Dec 17, 7:44 pm, Dale Beams <drbe...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Panoramic photos have been around for some time. We've got a photo here in a > furniture store of downtown that was produced in 1890. > > Panoramic photos would not have a patent, or if it did would be defeated by > prior art. > > A methodology might be considered patentable, but then you would have to > pursue the patent infringer, in the case, ie, SIFT or SURF provided they > followed the patent to the letter. > > In regards to ipix, they attempted to sue photographers, and then got sued > themselves and lost to Pictosphere. > > ipix patent arguements were to broad, and prior art was used in court by > defendants of their lawsuits. > > > > > I am not sure you are right about the status of copyrighted works > > created with infringed works. I think there have been cases where the > > produced work has had to pay the owner of the patent. I am not an > > attorney but I think that is often use the threat of lawsuits in such > > cases to get money (iPix comes to mind). > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM > protection.http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
