RE: Re: Re: From JavaLobby News

Two points
1. It is common practice to patent in the UK and the EU (and lots of
other countries). I an not sure what the 'EU is just considering ...'
relates to. EU has software only patents ( I hold 2 software only
patents myself filed in EU, US and 70+ countries, amongst other patents)

2.  patent should be considered as valid until it is disproved, unless
you know of some guatanteed menchanism to invalidate the patent e.g.
prior art, it should be considered as a high risk strategy to just
ignore it.

I am not a legal expert, but I believe that hosting of the download has
little to do with the patent breach or not.

A better idea is for Sun to get guidance from their lawyers. As SUN
contribute a significant (or more) proportion of the effort then thay
would be the ones to be sued, along with IDEA, Eclipse et al

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mick Wever
> Sent: Thursday 10 June 2004 12:12
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tasklist] Re: Re: From JavaLobby News
> 
> 
> >> I believe that for people outside the US this does not 
> change anything
> >> (yet - the discussion about software patents is just 
> happening in EU
> >> parliament).
> >>
> >> So hosting the task list module outside US could help at 
> least for those
> >> not living over there ;-(
> > 
> > Thanks......but it also means that products based on 
> NetBeans that want to
> > sell in the US might be exposed to risk, as well as open 
> source developers
> > living in the US who wants to work on the tasklist module 
> (such as myself
> > :) might have to be careful.
> 
> Is anyone really taking these patents seriously? Have any of 
> these patents
> been tested in court yet? Take for example microsoft's timed 
> mouse click.
> It seems plain stupid and really is quite funny to most 
> people, does the
> US court system really not possess the same common-sense? 
> Mick.
> 
> ps Should i lodge a patent covering "opening one's mouth and 
> making sounds
> originating at the throat" before microsoft takes it?
> 
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