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more on Wi-Fi standards face patent threat
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:23:53 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: George Margolin <inventor () rentaninventor com> Date: November 29, 2006 11:02:19 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: "'Ronald J Riley'" <RJR () PIAUSA org> Subject: RE: [IP] more on Wi-Fi standards face patent threat Reply-To: inventor () pobox comDave -- if Mr. Poulsen actually IS a "Senior Engineer and Partner at a Start
Up company" -- I would STRONGLY recommend NOT investing in that company because he is like a blindfolded man lighting matches in a firecracker factory.So please let us know the name of his company so that we don't accidentally
invest in it. It will surely be doomed -- in fact -- Kaboomed!Poor Mr. Poulsen is Wrong about the purpose of the American Patent System.
He is knowledge less about how it works, why it exists and how and whyAmerica has become and has remained (at least until now) the technological leader of the world. And he is more than cavalier about NOT reading and the
NOT knowing when his company will be in trouble by blindly STEALING thecreative and patented creations of other who ARE playing by the rules and disclosing and TEACHING their technology so that others may learn and build
upon it. George Margolin Vice President Professional Inventors Alliance -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:09 AM To: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: [IP] more on Wi-Fi standards face patent threat Begin forwarded message: From: Lars Poulsen <lpoulsen () afar net> Date: November 29, 2006 12:16:10 PM EST To: dewayne () warp-speed com, dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] and [Dewayne-Net] Wi-Fi standards face patent threat
Patents ... have become so not what the founding fathers had in mind when they hardwired them into the constitution.
Indeed. As a senior engineer (partner in a start-up company) it is in my best interest NOT to read any patents related to my field. If I read patents and learn anything in the process, I am obligated to try to negotiate a license for using what I learned. Since the owner of the patent is likely to be a competitor, it is likely that he will be unwilling to grant a license on terms that are acceptable to me. If I DON'T read the patents, and independently come up with the same techniques, I have a pretty good defense of obviousness. And if I keep my circuit designs and source code as trade secrets, who is to know that I achieved the same features by the same mechanisms anyway? So much for patents "promoting innovation in the arts and sciences". / Lars Poulsen Afar Communications Inc ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as inventor () pobox com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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