Date: 2003/03/26 06:54
From: Carl Vilbrandt <carl@ggpl.org>
To: discuss@ggpl.org
Dear Francois,
Thanks for your help in making the issues about patents very clear and
your very timely suggestion ... :-) about timestamping the design.
I am not in favor giving money to the USPO and most certainly a patent
( rather is it immaterial patent a complete outrage or a material base
patent ) that is owned or controlled by one person or one large company
should be avoided.
FP is quiet right ..... Organis even if it is published through the
Osaka design competition as prior art could be patented by moneyed just
to be shut down or extract money from Organis groups. Putting a patent
on the Organis design would be a stratagem move that might invite
implementation funding ....... If we patent Organis it must be done
carefully.... If you patent the immaterial world it gives it a monetary
value so the immaterial world can be taken over by entities with large
financial resources.
In the time being I would ask that all of us should date and print out
the most important parts of Organis design and sign them as the design
emerges in our e-mails. As a disscuss@ggpl group we all have designed
Organis together it does not belong to any one of us, but all of us and
this gives some protection. All of your names should appear on the
submission / publication to Osaka design completion (a large very public
event) makes it prior art and gives more protection from patents. The
purpose's of the Osaka design completion are in concert with the Organis.
> The solution is to timestamp and/or publish its
> specifications ASAP, to make prior art. This will
> be as valid as prior art by patents, because you
> do not want to exclude people from using Organis,
> but just make sure that nobody prevents other people
> including you from developing it.