On Oct 17, 2007, at 22:47, Greg Rundlett wrote:
> Due to the patent system, the world is limited to basically two large
> consumer products companies that sell coffee. Why? because canisters
> come in round or square shapes (triangular being rather impractical --
> although maybe there is an idea
On 10/17/07, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:53:59 -0400
> Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there something inherently wrong with the business model of a
> > small inventor who licenses his inventions but outsources protection
> > prosecution?
> >
On 10/17/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Additionally please send email either to the listserv or to the poster
>> you are replying to, but not both.
>
> Au contraire, please send messages to both me and the mailing list.
Au contraire contraire, please do not. Abuse of "Reply A
On Oct 17, 2007, at 16:01, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> That company at some
> future time, decides to sell the patent because they may no longer be
> receiving revenue from that product.
Even worse - I've licensed the patent to four companies who are using
it, and a fifth is infringing. I don't hav
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:53:59 -0400
Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there something inherently wrong with the business model of a
> small inventor who licenses his inventions but outsources protection
> prosecution?
>
> I recognize many patent trolls don't resemble this arrangeme
On 10/17/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This does mean if the stock script is
>> updated, I might have to manually merge those changes into my modified
>> copy to get them, but it's not too bad.
>
> That's why we push our changes upstream - so somebody else can
> maintain them!
On Oct 17, 2007, at 07:28, Travis Roy wrote:
> The US First website usually has some good stuff. It might be a bit
> specific to the current game, but still good info.
That reminds me - I was checking out FIRST for a school I do some
work with and we were shocked by the cost to participate -
On Oct 17, 2007, at 10:40, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The issue of "patent trolls" is a troubling issue because there are
> companies, such as IP Innovation LLC that exist simply to enforce
> patents that were filed by others. I think that it may require some
> patent reform legislation to fix this.
On Oct 16, 2007, at 12:11, Ben Scott wrote:
> This does mean if the stock script is
> updated, I might have to manually merge those changes into my modified
> copy to get them, but it's not too bad.
That's why we push our changes upstream - so somebody else can
maintain them!
-Bill
-
Bil
On Oct 15, 2007, at 18:25, Thomas Charron wrote:
> I know what the options are pretty much. But they're convinced that
> this is the right one.
There's little substitute for science. Come up with your worst-case
scenario and test their method. I bet it won't work, but we might be
surpris
> Anyone know of good email lists / message forums / groups for
> robotics hobbiests? I am always looking for more information on that.
I used to work at a robotics company. We contributed stuff to
player/stage. Most what our company did was navigation work, but if you
trawl the player/stage mai
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 07:23, Lori Nagel wrote:
> Anyone know of good email lists / message forums / groups for
> robotics hobbiests? I am always looking for more information on that.
"Nuts and Volts" magazine has several good articles on robotics each
month. In addition, their adverti
On 10/16/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Tyson Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What if I want to rebuild a package on a different architecture ...
>
> There's an architecture that might use .deb packages but the Debian
> distribution *doesn't* support? Come on, Debi
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:38:24 -0400
Alex Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One thing that annoyed me is that the lawsuit was claiming "economic
> damages" and you find yourself wondering how much money could they be
> talking about when they didn't do any of the work that led to the patent
> in t
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 08:41 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I just wanted to add a followup here on this.
> First note that the patents involved should expire in December, 2008.
> But there is a more in-depth discussion that PJ had with a retired
> patent attorney. Basically, I think that the reason
Readers may recall that the ISO committee responsible for approval
of the OOXML standard saw a sudden influx of formerly disinterested
members after it became apparent that OOXML was not going to be
approved. It was widely speculated that Microsoft was attempting to
buy the vote.
While the tr
I just wanted to add a followup here on this.
First note that the patents involved should expire in December, 2008.
But there is a more in-depth discussion that PJ had with a retired
patent attorney. Basically, I think that the reason for filing this
suit now is that, assuming the patents are abou
The US First website usually has some good stuff. It might be a bit
specific to the current game, but still good info.
http://www.usfirst.org/
http://forums.usfirst.org/
On Oct 17, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Lori Nagel wrote:
Anyone know of good email lists / message forums / groups for
robotics h
Anyone know of good email lists / message forums / groups for robotics
hobbiests? I am always looking for more information on that.
Dan Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/16/07, Dan Jenkins wrote:
> A friend of mine has an old Roomba to give away to anyone who wants to
> play with it. The
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