Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 01:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
> It brings up another sore point with me.  I'm of the opinion that both 
> copyright, and patent, should be granted to the author/inventor on a 
> non-transferable basis.  He could then sell rights to use it for a 

ACK. This would kill the abuse and do what lots people are claiming -
help the actual innovator (and not only help the patent abuse
machinery).
BTW in Austria and Germany (and probably the rest of continental Europe)
the local version of the copyright (in german "Urheberrecht") has this
feature since ages.
So just move onto here and voila, you there in at least this point.

> set period of time, at the end of which it is still his.  The 
> present, sell it to the highest bidder situation too often leaves 
> talented folks in the soup lines at the local mission because they 
> were screwed out of the benefits their invention or composition 
> should have brought them.
[...]
> >Talk to the USPTO, they created these links from their website. BTW,

Does USPTO sent the mail? No.

> > if you check
> >the verson of web server run on the uspto.gov server, you will
> > discover it is
> >Apache on IBM servers and IBM Linux. Ask them why IBM's sofware
> > outputs links this way.

And who sent it that broken way?

> Correction Jeff, you sent that link to the list, and IMNSHO, it was 
> your job to see to it the mimetype was properly set.  It was not.

ACK. PEBKAC without doubt.

	Bernd
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