Simo Sorce wrote:
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 19:03, Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet wrote:
Alex Hudson wrote:
I also don't think that re-implementation of something is necessarily something that should be covered by a patent.
But surely all imitators are re-implementing an invention?
what's wrong in re-implementation? patents borned to stop copying to let you invest into making things, not to stop progress, re-implementation is progress ... we costantly re-implement inventions to make things easier, better, faster, nicer, ecc...
Nothing wrong with re-implementation. It just is difficult to imagine how a patent can be worth anything if any re-implementation of the same thing is not covered.
If it's an improvement, I believe you should be legally required to get a license from the original patent holder.
Well, I also think that if you find a different implementation of the same inventive idea in hardware, the patent holder should be able to stop you. Just like with software. If it's a new solution, you're in the clear. If it's just a different realization, you're infringing.
seem you are not thinking that most problems have just one solution.
No technical problem has just one solution.
if you patent the solution you patent the problem, if you patent the problem you stop innovation and progress because nobody except the patent holder is entitle to research in that problem field (and the patent holder is not pushed by competition either).
That's not true, everyone can do research and development. You just can't make and sell products based on the research if the products infringe a patent.
4 + 4 = 8 there are no different solution that math if you make it be 4 + 4 = 5 you simply get it wrong.
That's not a technical invention.
To name an example, let's take MPEG again. When you make a video compression technique, you can build it in hardware or in software that runs on a general-purpose processor. The patent should cover both, or none. Not just the hardware variant.
That's nonsense, you are patenting an algorithm this way, you are patenting pure logic; pure logic cannot be patentable it's crazy to let people patent concepts!
I'm patenting a device that implements the logic. Feel free to research and use the logic. Just don't sell devices implementing the logic.
Kind regards,
Arnoud Engelfriet