Here is an entry from my blog: <http://samsara-blog.blogspot.com/2005/12/software-patents.html>, that I think may be of interest to members of the Cyberia and ...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
Dec 3, 2005 8:02 pm
49731
... I don't know why your link didn't work - but I was able to read the article by stripping off the specific blog entry information in the URL and going...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
Dec 5, 2005 4:28 am
49732
... I am not sure that that is a relevant argument. The issue that I was raising was whether the Supreme Court'a decision in Benson, which has not been...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
Dec 5, 2005 3:00 pm
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... Benson was later affected by Diamond v. Diehr, which is the precedent the Federal Circuit followed in State Street Bank. Stephen Carlson -- Stephen C....
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson@...
Dec 5, 2005 4:05 pm
49734
... I am not quite sure what is meant by "affected" here. As far as I can tell, Diamond v. Diehr only holds that a means of or process for cooking rubber are...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
Dec 5, 2005 5:58 pm
49735
... I think the big problem is that software seems to fit into just about all levels of IP. First we have License, then copyright and finally Patent. What...
Drew Lehman - DigitaT...
dlehman@...
Dec 5, 2005 6:01 pm
49736
... Who's trying to "overrule" Benson? The way in which the Federal Circuit *distinguished* Benson and Diehr is good enough for the patent bar. Mathematical...
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson@...
Dec 5, 2005 6:37 pm
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... The trouble is that the ``distinction'' that the Federal Circuit made would, if upheld, mean that the claims that were held to be unpatentable in Benson...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
Dec 5, 2005 7:15 pm
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... The distinction between Benson and State Street is the disclosure of the new, practical and specific use for the specific algorithm. The real problem in...
J. Noble
jfnbl@...
Dec 6, 2005 9:56 am
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... You have two statutory IP regimes: copyright and patent, either of which may be licensed. And you have trade secrets, which can also be licensed but have...
J. Noble
jfnbl@...
Dec 6, 2005 9:56 am
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... I remember having to convert data in the form of binary coded decimal to pure binary form quite often back in the seventies so I could work with the data...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
Dec 6, 2005 3:46 pm
49741
... Sorry. I have a cold and my memory is playing tricks on me. The conversion that I had to do was converting ASCII representations of numbers to binary...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
Dec 6, 2005 5:42 pm
49742
I appreciate the opportunity you provided to think this through. I hope the response is illuminating even if you're not altogether persuaded. ... Maybe I'm...
J. Noble
jfnbl@...
Dec 7, 2005 12:58 am
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I have a C programming book I bought in Singapore in 1994. On the front it has emblazoned "Low Priced Asian Edition" and on the back, "Illegal for sale or...
Reese
reeza@...
Dec 7, 2005 1:10 am
49744
... The last few times I bought a book inexpensively through Amazon (through a third party through Amazon) it turned out to be an edition printed for sale in...
Carl Oppedahl
carl@...
Dec 7, 2005 1:19 am
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... I can't see how, in the US, it would be illegal. First-sale doctrine would seem to apply, regardless of where you originally purchased it. It's now "your...
Derek J. Balling
dredd@...
Dec 7, 2005 1:23 am
49746
European Publishers Group Says Online Content Cannot Remain Free By HELENA SPONGENBERG, Associated Press Writer Published: December 06, 2005 2:25 PM ET ...
Randall
rvh40@...
Dec 7, 2005 3:45 am
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... And I appreciate your response for exactly the same reasons. It was what I was hoping to get in reply when I posted my original article about this issue....
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
Dec 7, 2005 5:08 pm
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You can't say that Diehr did not modify Benson, and then acknowledge that the process of curing rubber was "totally lacking in novelty," and Diehr would be a...
J. Noble
jfnbl@...
Dec 8, 2005 6:04 am
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... I don't think that is what I am doing. I'm saying that the only issue in Diehr was whether a method of cooking rubber was patentable and that the Court...
Peter D. Junger
junger@...
Dec 8, 2005 4:07 pm
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My understanding is that the Asian-only books first emerged when Taiwan and some of the other asian countries deliberately rejected the notion of copyright. So...
Peter Wayner
pcw2@...
Dec 10, 2005 1:53 am
49751
... I am not sure I would use quite this terminology. Under 17 USC 101, "copy" would seem to be value free as to legitimacy. In other words, a "copy" exists,...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
Dec 11, 2005 7:08 pm
49752
A reply by Scott Ryan who can't seem to get posted at cyberia-l to my First Sale copyright post yesterday. See QUALITY KING DISTRIBUTORS, INC. v. L'ANZA...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
Dec 13, 2005 1:31 am
49753
Chances are, if you own a Web site or know someone who does, that the Web site was registered through Go Daddy.com. Go Daddy.com is the # 1 ICANN-accredited...
J. Wyatt Ehrenfels
jwyattehrenfels@...
Dec 19, 2005 4:26 pm
49754
This was very chilling to read. Apparently the department of homeland security is watching the library system when people request books. "NEW BEDFORD -- A...
Drew Lehman - DigitaT...
dlehman@...
Dec 20, 2005 3:29 am
49755
... 12/19/2005 CONTACT: John Hoey, 508.999.8027 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth statement regarding Homeland Security library issue University of...
David Lesher
wb8foz@...
Dec 20, 2005 3:48 am
49756
... What's odd about the newspaper reports is U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents are parts of very agencies, e.g. Secret Service, Immigration and...
Sean Donelan
sean@...
Dec 20, 2005 7:24 am
49757
Is it conceivable that the borrowing of the book and the visit from Federal agents are not causally related, except in the student's mind? -Warren Agin ... ...
Warren E. Agin
wea@...
Dec 20, 2005 1:19 pm
49758
Sure - DHS goons make a habit of visiting the parents of random college students, just to let the kids know who's boss. ... -- ...
Randall
rvh40@...
Dec 20, 2005 1:36 pm
49759
... I noted that myself. However, just yesterday I saw a cruiser now relabeled -- it's no longer Uniformed Div Secret Service; now the big letters scream...
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