OSDL patent commons gets chilly reception from the 'outspoken' (ZDNet)

Posted Aug 16, 2005 11:18 UTC (Tue) by zotz (guest, #26117)
Parent article: OSDL patent commons gets chilly reception from the 'outspoken' (ZDNet)

I posted this over at slashdot and I think something similar a linuxtoday:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158939&cid=13315572

I think Bruce is right, but I think some big player like IBM could probably address the issue in a constructive way if they wished to do so.

Here is my idea:

When they next have a fundamental patent to apply for, apply for it in the name of the pool and not in their own name. This patent is now not subject to the cross patent agreements it may have with others.

Now it signs a cross patenting agreement with the pool so it can use all of the pool patents.

Where does this leave players who do not wish to play with the pool?

What if all of the big patenters who sincerely wanted to solve this issue applied for all of their new patents in the name of the pool and not on their own behalf?

Does anyone see any reason why such a plan could not work?

all the best,

drew

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/40737 [ourmedia.org]
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There was some followup discussions of a reasonable nature. If you check my page you can find them:

http://slashdot.org/~zotz/