[Discussioni] I brevetti software sono un cancro!

[Stefano Maffulli]

L'ho appena visto passare su un'altra lista.

Se conoscete aziende interessate a fermare la direttiva e abbastanza
preparate sul tema per parlare con gli europarlamentari italiani
mettetele in contatto URGENTEMENTE con il gruppo di lavoro italiano
antiswpat, it-help a ffii.org.

Stiamo organizzando un viaggio a Bruxelles dal 14 al 16 Giugno per
parlare con gli italiani.  E' l'ultima settimana possibile per FARE.
Poi potremo solo guardare alla finestra cosa decide il JURI.

a presto
stef

[quelli indicati sono brevetti USA, ma ci sono anche gli equipollenti
brevetti EU]

Betreff:  [Asterisk-Dev] Patent lawyers?
Datum:  Tue, 31 May 2005 18:08:19 -0500
Von:  Brian West 
Antwort an:  Asterisk Developers Mailing List
An:  Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion

Anyone know a really good patent lawyers... Here are a list of
patents we have been accused of violating: (And yes we run Asterisk
+spandsp)

5675507 - Message storage and delivery system (voicemail)
6208638 - Method and apparatus for transmission and retrieval of
facsimile and
             audio messages over a circuit or packet switched network
(spandsp sending faxes via email)
6350066 - Systems and methods for storing, delivering, and managing
messages (think vmail.cgi)
6564321 - Systems and methods for storing, delivering, and managing
messages (again vmail.cgi)
6857074 - Systems and methods for storing, delivering, and managing
messages (same as the other two)
6597688 - Scalable architecture for transmission of messages over a
network (usage with spandsp)

Non-Asterisk Related:
6073165 -Filtering computer network messages directed to a user's e-
mail box based on user defined filters, and forwarding a filtered
message to the user's receiver

Some of these patents are just silly and could apply to ANY voicemail
or messaging system on the planet even email.  We face a "real" legal
battle with these patents in question.. putting this out here because
it could have an effect on anyone offering services be it voicemail
or fax using Asterisk.

Thanks,
Brian
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