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Posted to dev@cocoon.apache.org by John Austin <jo...@integerservices.no-ip.com> on 2002/05/31 01:57:35 UTC
Re: RedHat patent application
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 02:58 am, you wrote:
> RedHat\'s patent applications
...
> How can you fight this kind of evil, when an \"inventor\" simply
> combines two trivial techniques (static response objects in servers
> and integrating servers into the OS)?
It's called 'prior art' and renders the patent unenforceable. Of course
the lawyers who conned RedHat's PHB's into making the application still
get paid if the patent is unenforceable.
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Re: RedHat patent application
Posted by Andy Lewis <aj...@ascii27.net>.
so do the lawyers you use to render it unenforcable. With the current
state of IP law, only the lawyers win.
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 02:58 am, you wrote:
>> RedHat\'s patent applications
>
> ...
>
>> How can you fight this kind of evil, when an \"inventor\" simply
>> combines two trivial techniques (static response objects in servers
>> and integrating servers into the OS)?
>
> It's called 'prior art' and renders the patent unenforceable. Of course
> the lawyers who conned RedHat's PHB's into making the application
> still get paid if the patent is unenforceable.
>
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