Another difficulty with establishing prior art to prevent others from
obtaining patents is that different inventors and different patent
agents or attorneys use different terminology to describe the same or
similar inventions.
To use a simple mechanical example:
- Alex develops gadget that i
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 16:57:01 -0400,
Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 3) His question was why? With a bsd license you can't stop anyone from
> using it and nobody
> else can patent it since by placing it in the project you are
> establishing prior art.
Nope. They can still be iss
I've talked to a friend of mine who is a patent lawyer.
1) in Europe if it is in the public domain then it cannot be patented
2) in North America you would have to patent before submitting to the
project.
3) His question was why? With a bsd license you can't stop anyone from
using it and nobody
e
> That depends; is the SFLC offering to pay for the patent applications? Last
> I
> checked, it was somewhere around $6000 per patent.
Nolo press (www.nolo.com) sells a book on patents. Many people file their own
patent applications successfully. The cost is less that $1000.
David
On 5/9/05, Dann Corbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the idea originates in PostgreSQL, then nobody else can patent it,
> because there will be pre-existing art (the PostgreSQL engine) that
> already demonstrated the idea. A patent must have a novel idea in it.
>
> I do not think a good thing c
of interest:
http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
Of course, it is IMO-YMMV.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-hackers-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alvaro Herrera
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 10:14 PM
> To: Hackers
> Subject: [HACKERS]
Alvaro,
> I'm wondering, could the PostgreSQL Foundation (or some other entity)
> get patents on some parts of Postgres? Maybe ResourceOwners for
> example; or the newer parts of the optimizer.
That depends; is the SFLC offering to pay for the patent applications? Last I
checked, it was somewh
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Hackers,
I was reading LWN.net and noticed an article about Eben Moglen's keynote
at linux.conf.au. Apparently he advises free software projects to get
patents on their best ideas.
Eben encouraged free software developers to record their novel
Hackers,
I was reading LWN.net and noticed an article about Eben Moglen's keynote
at linux.conf.au. Apparently he advises free software projects to get
patents on their best ideas.
Eben encouraged free software developers to record their novel
inventions and to obtain patents on
