[linux-audio-dev] Patents on some Linux OS code

[Pedro Lozano]

Then I dont understand why there are companies pushing for the aproval of 
software patents in europe and worldwide. To patent stupid things and not 
using these patents for anything?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Davis" <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
To: "The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List" 
<linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Patents on some Linux OS code


> >They think that if there is no "producer" backing the product then they 
> >can
>>attack the user as the guilty of the patent infraction, and I think that 
>>we
>>will see more threats and trials because of that. This is something that 
>>is
>>happening, not only my thoughs.
>
> it is *not* happening. its as simple as that. court cases based on s/w
> patents are very, very, very hard to find, for reasons i outlined
> earlier.
>
> so-called "intellectual property" cases are happening, but these are
> entirely different in that they are based on copyright and trademark
> and trade secret laws, which do not look anything like patent law.
>
> --p
>
>