[Stoves] Patents

[Xavier Brandao]

Good evening,
Very interesting discussion, the stovelist is then the perfect anti-patent
weapon.
Before internet and the computer, perhaps it was more difficult to prove the
idea existed if someone tried to steal it and patent it. Now, every
document, every file, every email, is dated. The idea is in no time copied
onto many different computers and servers, making it unstealable.
I like that.
Xavier

P.S : how do you people manage to have a full conversation before I even
receive the initial message of the topic in my mailbox?


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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:19:08 -0400
From: "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <crispinpigott at gmail.com>
To: "Stoves" <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Subject: [Stoves] Patents
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Dear Stove Inventors

 

There is a great description with graphics at
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392375,00.asp discussing patents and
the steps involved in getting one. There is a software/electronics related
discussion about how the companies holding patents use them. It is
instructive of the risks and benefits.

 

It focuses at the end on the implications for the popular Android operating
system which infringes on at least 10 patents owned by Oracle and Microsoft.

 

Fortunately stoves don't have software, yet.

 

Regards

Crispin