On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Adam Back wrote:
> hmm Yes and this topic now is more than a bit non dev related. Sorry about
> that. There seems to be no convenient mailing list format for non-dev stuff
> or I would Cc and set Reply-To for example? (Web forums somewhat suck IMO).
There is t
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Most companies (Google certainly included) have therefore banned their staff
> from reading patents,
Bitcoin is not Google though, and applying the same patent protocols
to Bitcoin as in Google is drawing a false equivalence between the
two. Go
>
> Avoiding willfull infringement no longer requires paying off a
> patent attorney to get a freedom to operate review. This isn't to say
> that reading patents is always productive
That case raised the bar a bit, but the core problem remains - if you learn
about a patent you definitely violate
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On 19 May 2014 20:43:15 CEST, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>There are other defensive approaches which are interesting than hoping
>to use patents as a counter attack: For one— filing a patent gets the
>work entered in the only database that USPTO exam
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> The first rule of patents is you do not go looking for patents. US law is
> written in a really stupid way, such that if you knowingly infringe, damages
> triple. Because America uses the patent office as a revenue source,
You have received out
>
> Meh. The world is much bigger than the USA. Secondly that rule makes it
> difficult to educate people about why patents are as bad as they are.
>
You can easily find examples that are not relevant to Bitcoin if you want
to discuss the patent system in general.
> Feel free to continue censori
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On 19 May 2014 17:09:07 CEST, Mike Hearn wrote:
>The first rule of patents is *you do not go looking for patents*. US
>law is
>written in a really stupid way, such that if you knowingly infringe,
>damages triple. Because America uses the patent o
IMO this list is fine for discussing such topics.
Here are some thoughts. I had to deal with patents at Google (my name is on
a few, not my choice unfortunately). Many aspects of patent law are deeply
unintuitive, so here's the crash course as I was given it.
The first rule of patents is *you d
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