El 13-may-2003 a las 22:42:12, Klaus Knopper escribió:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:30:54PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> > El día 13 may 2003, Klaus Knopper escribía:
> > > FYI.
> > >
> > > -Klaus
> > >
> > > ----- Forwarded message from CI Group <cigroup@lycos.co.uk> -----
> > > Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:36:09 -0700
> > > From: CI Group <cigroup@lycos.co.uk>
> > > Subject: patent infringement
> > >
> > > hello there,
> > >
> > > your knoppix-customize project is infringing a pending patent. it is
> >
> > Which pending, not valid in Europe, patent?
>
> As you may know, it looks like the "software patents" will be
> established in Europe this month by the European Parliament.
>
> See http://www.eurolinux.org/index.en.html for details.
I'm not that sure of that establishment, at least we are working to avoid it.
> > I can claim that I hold a
> > patent on the wheel.
>
> Sorry to disappoint you. The wheel was already patented by
> John Michael Keogh in May 2001, australian innovation patent
> no. 2001 1000 12 (see http://www.ipmenu.com/archive/AUI_2001100012.pdf).
Damn, they were faster than me :-S
> > > requested of you to take it offline and inform the developers of this
> > > infringement to prevent any future clashes in court.
> >
> > I want to know which is this patent so prior art can be found, just in
> > case.
>
> I already requested information about this claim. Unfortunately, the
> mail sender did not reveal his companies address or legal contact
> information.
I can send emails like this to any project, but they really have to give us
more information about the patent, where it is valid... so much.
> Things like this will probably happen more often in the future, once
> software patents are established in europe.
Let's work for an Free of patents Europe. Could you put a No Patents banner
in the web?
Regards,
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