Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Morissette
Bill Thoen wrote: Christopher Schmidt wrote: Er, that blog is written by Richard Fairhurst. http://www.systemeD.net/blog/about.html Oops! Sorry about that. Too many windows open at the same time, I guess I lost track. Probably explains the double post too. Thanks for catching that. Ta

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Thoen
Christopher Schmidt wrote: Er, that blog is written by Richard Fairhurst. http://www.systemeD.net/blog/about.html Oops! Sorry about that. Too many windows open at the same time, I guess I lost track. Probably explains the double post too. Thanks for catching that. ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Brian Russo
patent attempts, > but we in doing so we all need to be careful of making any hasty or > unfounded allegations. > > > -mpg (ianal) > > > -Original Message- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: > discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bill Tho

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
-Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bill Thoen Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 7:14 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map. You might be surprised what people might be able t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Thoen
You might be surprised what people might be able to get away with, though. There's been repeated attempts to patent "web mapping" for example, and if it wasn't for the efforts of a few dedicated people, there would now be patents in both Britain and the USA on displaying maps over the web. But

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:14:10AM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote: > You might be surprised what people might be able to get away with, > though. There's been repeated attempts to patent "web mapping" for > example, and if it wasn't for the efforts of a few dedicated people, > there would now be pat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Brian Russo
Well there are all kinds of nonsensical patents on the books but a lot of them are never enforced. I don't see how the web mapping patent would fulfill the non-obvious requirement- but there are a lot of stupid courts out there. - bri On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Bill Thoen wrote: > You mig

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Thoen
You might be surprised what people might be able to get away with, though. There's been repeated attempts to patent "web mapping" for example, and if it wasn't for the efforts of a few dedicated people, there would now be patents in both Britain and the USA on displaying maps over the web. But

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-07 Thread Brian Russo
I've seen legends similar to that before; afraid I can't offer anything solid in terms of prior art examples but it's hardly as revolutionary as they seem to think. Pretty absurd if you ask me; On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:34 AM, "René A. Enguehard" wrote: > I suspect they might be applying for the pa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-05 Thread René A. Enguehard
I suspect they might be applying for the patent but in for quite a surprise when it gets rejected. Features for maps would be very tricky to patent and, more importantly, not in the interest of the general public. As such the patent applications would probably get rejected. Would we really want

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-05 Thread Lester Caine
Landon Blake wrote: The latest issue of the ACSM Bulletin had an interesting article about a map matrix that wraps around the edge of a paper map. It seems the company that is using this feature of hard copy map design is applying for a patent. I didn’t even think you could get a patent a featu

[OSGeo-Discuss] Patent for feature of paper map.

2009-08-05 Thread Landon Blake
The latest issue of the ACSM Bulletin had an interesting article about a map matrix that wraps around the edge of a paper map. It seems the company that is using this feature of hard copy map design is applying for a patent. I didn't even think you could get a patent a feature of a paper map. It go