RE: Copyright and patent issues...

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

>> That's almost like Exxon claiming ownership of the sun and adding a $25
fee on your monthly utility bill.

Another example of a  "blue sky" patent" that has become a reality has been
granting private companies the right to patent "DNA" and the like derived
from plants and animals so as to forbid others from cloning them for use in
new creations and products without having to acquire license rights.

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> From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com
> [mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of CDTobie@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: jerryolson@rrv.net; epson-inkjet@leben.com
> Subject: Re: Copyright and patent issues...
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/14/02 4:05:01 AM, jerryolson@rrv.net writes:
>
> >And there's nothing from stopping professional photographers
> from taking
> >a photo of the tower at night, either. I'd be Damned if I'd
> pay anything
> >to anybody to photograph a national monument! Not a dime!
> That's almost
> >like Exxon claiming ownership of the sun and adding a $25 fee on your
> >monthly utility bill.
>
> Interesting choice of analogies... since one of the nicknames
> of patently
> obvious patents is "blue sky" patents; the joke being that
> the first one to
> think to patent the fact that the sky is blue gets a royalty
> on sky blue...
>
> The patent the Gretag Macbeth owns in the US which does not
> allow any other
> manufacturer to build a single device that can calibrate both
> monitors and
> printers without a license is one patent that has been
> referred to in such
> terms. This patent has proven enforcable: X-Rite has settled
> for violations
> caused by the Colortron, and it was this patent that put SpectroStar
> (developers of the SpectroCam) out of business.
>
> C. David Tobie
> Design Cooperative
> CDTobie@designcoop.com
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