I would say that if he is unwilling to go to both sides of town that we record it for the side of town he won't go to.
:-)Mike(-:
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From: der.hans
Sent: 2/27/2004 2:19:23 PM
To:
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Subject: Re: Patent law as PLUG meeting topic
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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