Dear Bill, On the off chance that the email to the IETF's IDN list, with your address in the From field, was not an attempt by you or someone else to proffer some form of humor, a few comments are in order:
When making making claims of technical innovation, especially to a technical body, it helps to use the communications technology properly. Your note was nearly incoherent because of serious encoding problems with your posting. Further the web citations your provided were quite unusable. As well, <http://l2.espacenet.com/> appears to be inaccessible. Nonetheless: At 10:43 PM 1/16/2002 -0800, Heinze, Bill wrote: >notify you of the publication of World Intellectual Property = >Organization International Publication No. A WIPO publication? How nice. When did WIPO start issuing patents? >This patent application generally relates to a system, method, and Application? As in, no force of law yet? How interesting. >We believe that many of the technologies being discussed in this = >mailing >list infringe one or more of the 213 claims starting at page 87 of the 1. It is a bit unusual to refer to a "technology" as infringing. Perhaps you meant that you believe that some product USING the technology would be infringing? A pity your meaning is unclear. 2. Patent applications usually begin with an impressively inflated number of claims. For those patents that actually issue, the number of claims that survive is typically vastly smaller. That makes it difficult even to guess which portions of your impressive list of claims one should worry about. >Please note that failure to promptly obtain the appropriate = >authorization may subject you and your organization to liability for >royalties in the You are threatening legal actions against folks in this standards organizations for doing standards work without paying you a license fee? Either you are jesting or, alas, once again at least being impressively unclear. >William F. Heinze, Esq. Esquire? Cute touch, though doesn't it create a challenge for what to use upon making partner? At any rate, please do feel free to distract our discussion list further, but perhaps with postings that are more readable in format and clear in content. And in that unfortunate off chance that you were not the originator of the note sent under your name, to the person who did: tsk. tsk. Why would you want to alienate this standards organization to Mr. Heinze, by posting such a bothersome note, so badly formulated? d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.273.6464
