From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4889 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Meredith Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: patenting colimits? Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 17:04:10 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Greg Meredith NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243389175 22902 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2009 01:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:52:55 +0000 (UTC) To: Toby Bartels , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed May 27 03:52:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M98K3-0003Md-SX for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 03:52:52 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1M97kG-0003uC-Hm for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 26 May 2009 22:15:52 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4889 Archived-At: Toby, et al, Unfortunately, the patent game is more subtle than 'is it really new' on adjudication. To the best of my understanding, the adjudication process over a disputed claim really has a lot more to do with the depth of the pockets of the parties involved in the dispute. Discovery and argumentation can often be drawn out in a manner that those not quite resourced to see through to the end of the process simply get buried. The organizations and entities engaged in the IP-game are fully aware of this aspect of the whole arrangement. While i'm of mixed feelings regarding the overall issue of intellectual property, the actual motivations and carryings on of those who do engage in this really are often quite deplorable. Best wishes, --greg On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Toby Bartels < toby+categories@ugcs.caltech.edu >wrote: > Ronnie Brown wrote: > > >Larry Lambe passed on the following url to me for comment and I thought it > would be of interest to others on the category theory list, with more > expertise than I. I have not had time to study it, but on the face of it, > it seems like patenting mathematics, and to be deplored intensely. Am I > wrong? > >http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6964037.html > >[...] ... [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]