[Patents] Re: [IT-Xchange] Patents & Licensing

[Nicolas MONNET nico@monnet.to]

Hi Marianna,

Am I right to infer from your reply that you believe your patents to cover
all implementations, including pure software ones? 

Regards,

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Marianna Hamilton wrote:

|Dear Nicolas,
|
|Our patents do NOT cover any specific mp3 implementation (software), but the
|principles of the mp3 coding technology as standardized by ISO/IEC. Please
|visit our website http://mp3licensing.com, especially
|http://mp3licensing.com/patents.html for more details on our patents.
|
|Marianna
|
|
|4:41 PM 6/7/00*******************
|
|Marianna S. Hamilton - THOMSON multimedia - mp3 Licensing
|Tel:  +1.858.485.4207
|Email: marianna@tmmlive.com
|
|Please visit http://www.mp3licensing.com for further details on mp3
|licensing.
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Nicolas MONNET [mailto:nico@monnet.to]
|Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:58 AM
|To: info@mp3licensing.com
|Cc: patents@liberte.aful.org
|Subject: [IT-Xchange] Patents & Licensing
|
|
|
|Hello,
|
|Could you please enlighten me WRT the enforceability of your patents
|related MP3s in Europe, esp. considering that pure software patents are
|normally not legal in Europe.
|
|(ref: http://www.freepatents.org/law/)
|
|Regards,
|
|

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