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  • From: Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Ugh, more nasty patents
  • Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:23:24 +0000

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

What does this mean for PIW? Could we use this to our advantage in grant
proposals - making this free/open source before it gets patented? (Can you
tell what's on my mind, hehe)
*s

------ Original Message ------
Received: 06:46 AM PST, 03/21/2005
From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org, piw@lists.ibiblion.orgCc: Subject: [pcplantdb] Ugh, more nasty patents

As near as I can tell, Amazon is trying to patent what PIW more or
less is going to do. Specifically they are trying to patent the
"Personalized selection and display of user-supplied content to
enhance browsing of electronic catalogs"

Currently on the front page of slashdot:
<http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/21/1215224&tid=155&tid=1>

I'd not worry about this. There are plenty of other big sites about this pattent would affect. I'm sure we would get a lot of support if
things came to a head.

They are still 'trying to patent' i.e. its not patented yet.
Plus its not a catalogue, were not trying to sell anything.

Its a friviolous pattent.

Rich





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