IP: Free sw removed from german website due to US software patent threats

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:26:11 -0700
> From: James Love <love () cptech org>
> To: "Farber, David" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> (Forwarded from Patents list)
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 16:46:15 +0200 (CEST)
> From: PILCH Hartmut <phm () a2e de>
>
> Under
>
>  http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/daa-07.06.01-002/
>  http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch
>  http://www.ipix.com
>  http://www.cityscope.de/pp3n/index.html
>
> http://listserv.fh-furtwangen.de/cgi-bin/lwgate/cgi/lwgate-en-proj.cgi/PROJ-IMIM/archives/proj-imim.archive.0106/date/article-21.html
>
> you can find some info in german about the latest development about the
> Dersch v. iPIX case, see also
>
>         http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta/xrani/ipix/
>         (to be updated)
>
> A German math professor has backed down by removing his free image
> processing software from the web at least temporarily due to threats
> from iPIX Inc., a company that has pursued swpats agressively
> through US courts.
>
> The strange thing about this is that Dersch is backing down although the
> claims from iPIX are based only on US patents.  It seems that even
> without further extensions of the Hague Convention jurisdictions are
> already sufficiently blurred to allow US patents to terrorise European
> software developpers who are only publishing web pages without pursuing
> any business activities in the US.
>
> --
> Hartmut Pilch
> http://phm.ffii.org/
> Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation
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