Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261477AbVCCRzi (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:55:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262533AbVCCRzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:55:14 -0500 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:3260 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261477AbVCCRvQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:51:16 -0500 Message-ID: <42274F87.6020100@utah-nac.org> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:55:19 -0700 From: jmerkey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Simmons Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , gene.heskett@verizon.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609] References: <4226781B.7080302@utah-nac.org> <200503022227.40614.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <4226927A.6010107@utah-nac.org> <1109845583.28561.19.camel@tara.firmix.at> <422731B0.6040007@utah-nac.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 33 James Simmons wrote: >>Patent law in the US is based on section 113 of the United States >>Constitution, and patents >>are not going away. Live with guys. The best way to win the patent >>wars is for people >>who do Linux development to file their own patents and put some stakes >>in the ground. >> >> > > I have to agree with you. We need to apply for our own patients. The >problem is it cost to lay down patents. Who is going to pay? > As for the US Patent laws based on the constitution. That is no longer >the case. The Patent laws where changed when NAFTA and GATT went into >effect. Now the patent laws are changing again to meet WTO standards. The >whole planet is moving over to one universal set of patent laws. Those are >the laws to watch for. In fact India last month changed there own patent >laws to match WTO requirements. The WTO is not going away and they have >billons of dollars and world goverments behind them. > > Linus and friends need to find some legal resources to pay for the patent execution. This software freedom law center should foot the bill. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/