Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:46:53 -0500
From: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:21:08AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> It brings up another sore point with me.  I'm of the opinion that both 
> copyright, and patent, should be granted to the author/inventor on a 
> non-transferable basis.  He could then sell rights to use it for a 
> set period of time, at the end of which it is still his.  The 

You can already license patents, it's done all the time. There's no need for
the government to restrict the rights of patents holders to sell all their
rights, if they choose to.

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Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
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