Alexander Henry sugested: > At Jay Jacobson's Tech Officer's meeting, he > recently had a 20yr+ > experienced patent attorney, Marty Stoneman, who was > very good at > explaining remedial patent law. He had some very > eye-opening points, he > was very quick in turning questions around > informitavely and humorously, > and seemed to just love to speak to people. I've > also exchanged a few > e-mails with him. Specifically, when ./ had the "M$ > patented XML" > article, I forwarded that to him with a few > questions. He was again > very helpful, and during this discussion, he pointed > out to me that > there are in fact ways of invalidating patents. > > Given enough interest, I could get Mr. Stoneman in > for a PLUG meeting or > two. He considers time spent speaking to groups an > efficient use of his > time, and seems to like to network. > > Is East Side or West Side best? I will try to > convince him to go to > both, but which can be triaged? > > What questions would you have? Again, I will try to > have him bring > explanations on how to invalidate patents, in > addition to the quality > material he already has. > > --Alexander > RSVP > Alexander, We'd be very interested in this speaker and topic for a westside meeting. Please conntact me offlist @ alexofaz(at)yahoo(dot)com. Thanks Alex Munro PLUG Westside Presentation Coordinator __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss