8 Dec
2004
8 Dec
'04
4:47 p.m.
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(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>
To: "The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List"
<linux-audio-dev(a)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