From phm@a2e.de  Sun May  6 20:48:30 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 21:48:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Re: consultation questions
In-Reply-To: <200105061718.NAA08756@world.std.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105062144150.9183-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

> Hartmut just posed 8 questions.  Here are logically equivalent questions:

[ Greg substituted "software" for "hardware" and did a few more
  replacements, leading to meaningless questions ]

Now we go through another iteration loop:

> Increasingly in the hardware design world, the exchange, sale and
> licesning of hardware IP (systems described in hardware design
> languages) is approaching the levels of sales of software, the final
> manufacture into physical form handed over to large fab factories
> little different from the large factories that burn software CDs for
> sale.  Hartmut's questions, once again, help show the equivalence of
> hardware and software in so many aspects as to require their patentability
> to be equivalent as well.  Thank you Hartmut for your continuing efforts
> to demonstrate the equal patentability of hardware and software.

Since your replacement made the list of questions meaningless, it is you
who are to be thanked for a demonstration.

Pierre Breese already did quite a good job of responding.

You might feel that your time would be better wasted by responding to the
meaningless version.  What about giving it a try?

-phm



