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- From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- To: iriXx <iriXx@irixx.org>, PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- Cc: <patents@aful.org>, <free-sklyarov-uk@xenoclast.org>, DMCA_discuss <dmca_discuss@lists.microshaft.org>, <C-FIT_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] IT World Feature: Patently ridiculous: What's Europe to do?
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:49:55 -0400 (EDT)
>Any proposal for a simple name for this [the Forgent] patent?
How about "short lived"? Like many other software patents, and many
other patents in other fields of technology, this patent cited no
non-patent prior art. And like these other patents, there are law
firms currently collecting such prior art, and preparing opinions
that this patent, after the claims are greatly narrowed in light of
this prior art, won't be assertable against JPEG.
The patent's quality is about as low as many of the assertions in the
IT World article about the effects of patents. Whoever researched
the IT World article holds quality in about as much contempt as does
the applicant for the JPEG patent. I got a hearty laugh over the
totally unsubstantiated comment that software patents are destroying
software R&D.
Greg Aharonian
- Re: [Patents] IT World Feature: Patently ridiculous: What's Europe to do?, Gregory Aharonian
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