"That means that if something is eligible for patent protection – even if it does not have patent protection – it cannot be protected by copyright. "
That's not remotely true. something can have both copyright and patent protection.
That's not remotely true. something can have both copyright and patent protection.
it's common for software to have both.
keep in mind I don't actually like software patents.
one does not preclude the other.
You could probably copyright the sequence of a synthetic gene and patent the manner in which it actually works.
Likewise you can copyright the code running on a widget while patenting the widget.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
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pledges to try and achieve an escrowed public benefit use of patents,
essentially a promise only to use patents defensively against patent
trolls.
It's as close to a good reason to have patents as I see possible.
On 02/27/2013 08:28 PM, John Griessen wrote:
> On 02/27/2013 01:40 PM, Cathal Garvey wrote:
>> My understanding of why that approach never got traction is that
>> there is*no* way for you to guarantee . . . you won't change
>> your mind and sue
>
> I guess you'd have to add a trustee to hold the patents with no
> other reason to be except to execute the trust, and have that drawn
> up to benefit the public. Trusts that benefit the public have
> plenty of legal precedent and work well.
>
> It's all rather complicated compared to copyright + license -->
> GPL copylefting.
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