Klarinet Archive - Posting 000221.txt from 2006/04

From: "Keith" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: McIntyre/Mazzeo
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:52:29 -0400

You simply have to get it in the public domain, e.g. by publishing the
design in a journal, then other people cannot patent it (if the patent
agents do their job well, which does not always happen). This has been a
well known principle for a very long time.

Keith Bowen

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> Behalf Of Joseph Wakeling
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> Mark Charette wrote:
> > I would strongly disagree with a "copyleft" for this type of item, but
> I'm
> > not really interested in agruing religion :^)
>
> I suggested that half tongue-in-cheek; I'm willing to listen to
> arguments on this one. I don't see patents in their traditional form as
> inherently evil: disclosure in return for a short-term monopoly is a
> pretty good deal for society in many cases.
>
> "Copyright law was designed to promote authorship and art, and covers
> the details of a work of authorship or art. Patent law was intended to
> encourage publication of ideas, at the price of finite monopolies over
> these ideas--a price that may be worth paying in some fields and not in
> others." ---Richard M. Stallman
>
> For those who are wondering who Richard Stallman is, or what Copyleft
> is, see: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/copyleft.html :-)
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