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Re: On Neutral Networks, settlements and freeconference


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:09:38 -0400



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From: Fred Benenson <fred.benenson () gmail com>
Date: March 20, 2007 6:54:16 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: On Neutral Networks, settlements and freeconference

Dave,
In response to Mr. Riley's comment, it would seem that the actual of the inventor of the patent in the RIM v. NTP case never would have seen a dime anyway: NTP patented the invention with no intention of remunerating the inventor. John Markoff wrote an NYTimes an article about it last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/technology/ 16wireless.html

"... as Mr. Goodfellow remembers it, [NTP's lawyer] introduced him to a travel companion by saying: "Geoff's the inventor of wireless e- mail. My client patented some of its implementation workings.""

Fred Benenson
President, Free Culture @ NYU



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