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Xiph.org's "Monty" on codecs and patentsXiph.org's "Monty" on codecs and patentsPosted Nov 10, 2011 10:29 UTC (Thu) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375)In reply to: Xiph.org's "Monty" on codecs and patents by gmaxwell Parent article: Xiph.org's "Monty" on codecs and patents
There are legal protections for false marking (fraudulently claiming your product is covered by a patent, used to notify people that copying the mechanism of a device will infringe a patent) and groundless threats of infringement (where you fraudulently notify a competitor of a patent that you claim they're infringing and, without confirming it, the prospective defendant stops the related business activity).
But I'm not convinced that they apply -- showing that they're not up-to-date with the jockeying and bullying used to gain business advantage. Or maybe these protections aren't in patent law outside the UK.
K3n.
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UK laws on false marking Posted Nov 15, 2011 16:10 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
Got any links about those laws in the UK? I'd like to document this on the swpat.org wiki, not sure what to name the page yet thought.
From what I've heard, many countries have such laws but Germany the only country where they're enforced sufficiently to actually scare Microsoft etc. off from spreading patent FUD about free software. In Germany if you want to insinuate patent infringement, you have to specify the patent and the infringing product.
But I've no links about this, it's just stuff that "everyone" says.
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