Journal Initiative sur le soi-disant brevet d'Acacia Research

Voila,

je viens de recevoir ça sur une ML (apparemment ça a aussi été posté sur les listes "brevets logiciels" de l'AFUL). Mes excuses pour les non-anglophones (mais y'en a-t-il ici ?), je suis trop fatigué pour traduire... En gros, le type qui écrit a monté un site web et est parti en croisade tout seul contre Acacia Research (la boîte qui clame partout avoir un brevet sur le principe du streaming, voir http://linuxfr.org/2003/08/03/13451.html(...) )
Son truc est de trouver des preuves de "prior art", quelque chose qui permettrait d'invalider définitivement le brevet.

Bien que ce me semble être une perte de temps (autant s'investir dans la lutte contre le projet de loi européen plutôt que de s'attaquer aux brevets les plus crétins un par un), je fais circuler l'info quand même. Si quelqu'un veut lui filer un coup de main...


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Greetings,

With this post, I have officially joined this group.

Outraged at Acacia Research's tactics of sending "information packets" to a
wide range of companies from adult websites to schools and universities,
over their interpretation of patent infringement, I created
http://www.FightThePatent.com(...) to bring awareness and search for prior art.

My current focus of internet activism is over these 3 current companies that
have broad claims to owning the patent to the streaming/downloading of
audio/video files from a (web) server.

I am currently a "one man" show, giving up my consulting time to spend 50+
hours a week for the last 3 weeks in contacting the "internet greats" to ask
for assistance in finding prior art.

I am completely independent, and providing a very biased viewpoint on the
articles that I write for my site.

I look to expand the search for prior art and generation of awareness of
other patent abuse cases (issues covered in this mailing list), as I am able
to expand the scope of my site. I do have some plans underway to create a
non-profit organization whose charter is to help uncover prior art in a
novel and altruistic manner (news on this will come later on).

I invite the members of this list to visit my website and to contact me if
you have some insights into the patent abuse cases that I am tracking.

I also look to be a participant in discussions since my quest for patent
abuse information takes me on so many different paths.


-brandon

http://www.FightThePatent.com(...)
Get Informed, Get Mad, Get Active.. Fight The Patent!
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