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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 05:46 PM EDT |
Ah yes...
Do anything you want with things you buy
I'd say the
examples provided are better placed in the context of:
You can't do
something illegal
The start of the thread was along the lines of "people
reaping the benefits of others work" - which, I might add, is a concept that is
not strictly illegal - or wrong - in and of itself. For example, while there is
a Copyright on Harry Potter, there are also things that can be done within the
Law falling under the Fair Use provisions.
I narrowed the concept from
"reaping others work" to whether or not a particular "invention" should even be
considered an invention in the first place.
It's too bad that you can't
see the difference between the concepts:
Doing something
illegal
vs
A process of "enter 1+1 into a calculator" should never be
considered patentable
If you're unwilling to consider the deeper question
of when someone can be viewed as "reaping someone's work" vs "fairly using
someone's work" - then no discussion between us will get anywhere.
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Authored by: AntiFUD on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 06:29 PM EDT |
Please explain - if you can how I can possibly infringe a patent by using a
computing device, be it a desktop, laptop, cell/mobile phone, or cloud server.
Only in the case of the cloud server am I not the owner of said computing
device. In all other cases it is the manufacturer of the device that may or may
not infringe, not me the user/consumer.
Is it possible in your world for a user to infringe on a patent by using any
other electronic device, such as a refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, plain old
telephone or bedside clock radio.
Besides I can use my printer to print every single patent issued by the USPTO
without infringing on any patent. They are public records available to all!
I fear that your arguments are falling on stony ground, and your foundation is
built on sand.
My laptop can not produce anything - it cannot invent anything - it cannot
discovery anything -- if it did not have a whirring sound of the fan on
occasions I wouldn't know if it was on or off (and since it runs Windows 2000 it
is not attached to the internet).
How pray, can a computer and/or its operator ever infringe on a patent?
Or are you just spreading FUD.
P.S.: Maybe not Gene, perhaps the FUD Meister!
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IANAL - Free to Fight FUD - "to this very day"
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