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

[Cirelle Enterprises]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Walsh" <kevin at cursor.biz>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:52 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 licensing/patent?


| Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists [benjk.on.asterisk.ml at gmail.com] wrote:
| > > Now, if someone had designed a chip that infringed the patents
| > > then the registered patents would be enforceable.  This is the real
| > > reason for using "an apparatus" in the claims.  In countries that
| > > don't allow software and mathematical patents, "an apparatus" can
| > > only mean hardware, and cannot be enforced against a software
| > > implementation.
| > >
| > Don't worry about that because they may sue you nonetheless and the
| > lawsuit will then bankrupt you anyway. You remind me of the guy on
| > whose tombstone is written "Run over by a truck at a zebra crossing.
| > His last words were 'But I have priority here!'"
| > 
| Judgements, in England, are not automatically granted to the person
| who can write the biggest cheque.  A claim that "that software violates
| my patent" wouldn't even make it to court.  If, by some miracle, it did
| make it to court then it'd most likely get thrown out within the first
| five minutes.
| 
| Under English law, the loser has to pay all reasonable legal costs
| incurred by the winner, which helps to avoid nuisance cases from being
| filed in the first place.
| 
| Your views are biased upon the ridiculous legal system used in the US
| courts, where favourable judgements are only awarded to those who can
| afford them.  You can't buy judgements in England.
| 
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but we've been over this before.  Perhaps
| we should simply agree to disagree before some Muppet decides to step
| in and embarrass himself with another $0.02 donation.
| 

Just send it to china, have them copy it and make a mirror image of it 
rename everything, add a ton of useless stuff to make it twice the size
 and be done with it.   (just like power supplys) :)