Subject: Patents

From: Carl Vilbrandt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:54:17 +0900

Dear Francois,
 Thanks for your help in making the issues about patents very clear and 
your very timely  suggestion ... :-) about timestamping the design.
 I am not in favor giving money to the USPO and most certainly a patent 
( rather is it immaterial patent a complete outrage or a material base 
patent ) that is owned or controlled by one person or one large company 
should be avoided.
FP is quiet right ..... Organis even if it is published through the 
Osaka design competition as prior art could be  patented by moneyed just 
to be shut down or extract money from Organis groups.  Putting a patent 
on the Organis design would be a stratagem move that might invite 
implementation funding ....... If we patent Organis it must be done 
carefully.... If you patent the immaterial world it gives it a monetary 
value so the immaterial world can be taken over by entities with large 
financial resources.
In the time being I would ask that all of us should date and print out 
the most important parts of Organis design and sign them as the design 
emerges in our e-mails.  As a disscuss@ggpl group we all have designed 
Organis together it does not belong to any one of us, but all of us and 
this gives some protection.  All of your names should appear on the 
submission / publication to Osaka design completion (a large very public 
event) makes it prior art and gives more protection from patents.  The 
purpose's of the Osaka design completion are in concert with the Organis.

> The solution is to timestamp and/or publish its
> specifications ASAP, to make prior art. This will
> be as valid as prior art by patents, because you
> do not want to exclude people from using Organis,
> but just make sure that nobody prevents other people
> including you from developing it.