Re: Patent law as PLUG meeting topic

I agree, this sounds like something interesting.

Frank

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 12:19, der.hans wrote:
> Am 27. Feb, 2004 schwätzte Alexander Henry so:
>
> > 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.
>
> I think that would be great.
>
> > Is East Side or West Side best? I will try to convince him to go to
> > both, but which can be triaged?
>
> Whichever one he prefers.
>
> > 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.
>
> We might want to make a list of patents that interest us. If he has time and
> background to cover them that would be great. For instance, there are the
> amazon patents as well as the ones amazon is accused of violating.
>
> It would be cool to know that it takes to get a patent. Maybe a review of
> the patent wording of the GPL and new Apache license as well as how orgs
> like w3c, ieee and ietf deal with patents. Not expecting all that, just
> saying those are areas that we would be interested in.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans

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