[Asterisk-Users] more voip patent madness

[Paul]

trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:28 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:
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>>Have a look at this article
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>>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005101916522254
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>>Some of the comments are interesting.
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>>With any luck the US will patent itself into a corner. 
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>Yup its insane, with that ruling it wouldnt be hard for someone to
>patent basically the selling of VoIP, forcing all small players under
>(or pay a license fee) and the large ones to either negotiate or pay
>large sums in court.
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>This just gives me one more reason to leave, as if I didnt have enough
>already.  I am just waiting for my lawsuit to be settled so I can
>escape.  It sucks in America, its only getting worse (the patent stuff
>is just one more reason) and it wont change untill congress has more
>independants elected in.  66% of congress being of like mind and
>independant could change a lot of the sillyness like this patent issue,
>but you will never see that.  66% can stop any filibuster, 66% can
>overrule any veto, 66% can do a lot really quick.  We only need 2 years
>of that (the house has 2 year terms).  
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>As long as the patent office is the way it is though I need to get on to
>filing my patent on a time displaced communications system (receive
>messages before they are sent, all the components are proven already
>just not stable :)
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I'm going to patent email and web methods for discussing patent issues.

I'm also going to patent methods of emigrating from the US to escape 
inane patent laws.

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