[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim@oreilly.com>
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:18:36 -0700
Ooh...sounds like a clever idea! Can I forward this message to slashdot
and to Dave Farber's IP list to get the idea out more widely?
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> One very interesting point was brought up in this debate I had not seen before:
>
> Patent filers have an affirmative obligation to disclose all prior
> art of which they are aware, and FAILING TO DO SO IS A CRIMINAL
> OFFENSE.
>
> What if we were to respond to patents for which there is no prior art
> by sending the filers (not the Patent Office) information about prior
> art by both email and registered mail? They would then be obligated
> to take note of this work in their patent application, and failing to
> do so would be grounds for both invalidating the patent and criminal
> prosecution. Thoughts?
>
> +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
> | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer |
> +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
> | The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999) |
> | http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ |
> | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764532367/cafeaulaitA/ |
> +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
> | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ |
> | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ |
> +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
--
Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
101 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472
+1 707-829-0515, FAX +1 707-829-0104
tim@oreilly.com, http://www.oreilly.com
***************************************************************************
This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers.
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@xml.org&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev
List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
***************************************************************************
|
