[Asterisk-Users] G.729 licensing/patent?

[Jay Milk]

Can we drop this?  It doesn't belong here, and it's getting tedious.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damjan [mailto:gdamjan at mail.net.mk]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:55 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 licensing/patent?
>
>
> > > How can generic PC hardware be covered by a patent? It's just a
> > > piece
> > > of software, that is, algorithms neatly put together with
> some control
> > > etc.
> >
> > Have you read the wording of a patent? They have to be worded vague
> > enough to cover most ways of doing something but with out
> getting too
> > vague as to become invalid. So a lot of patents use wording
> such as "a
> > device implementing this function to result in that output". This
> > covers both a quick circuit hack and a generic DSP or CPU doing the
> > same thing. As soon as the algorithm is executed by a chip,
> it becomes
> > part of the device that does somthing to end in a specific result.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, if you patent a device (aparatus) you
> can't be so vague in the patent wording and have to submit a
> prototype too...
> doesn't that mean that if my device doesn't in any way
> resemble the prototype I'm clear from patent infrigement?
>
> The isssue on patenting an algorithm/software (not a device)
> is a completelly different issue as we know.
>
>
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