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Originally Posted by Florence
I have this posted on another forums and decided to share it with you guys I might even try sharing it with BT beta forums not sure how it will be taken since the recording of their indian tech support lasted 20 mins ..
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the thing is the music industry have a big voice and big bucks behind them, the poor little backyard webmaster do a lot of it for a hobby and have no voice and little money so big business think they can treat us like dirt (thats the polite expression)
wonder if a few emails for FACT etc could enlighten them as they are the "
Federation
Against Copyright
Theft"
and BT WebWise
IS copyright theft using Phorm supplied Equipment and software, which if it goes ahead will also be used by Virgin Media and Talk Talk (AKA Carphone warehouse )
peter
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something else to throw into the mix,
look at
http://www.out-law.com/page-9293
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"In the most recent of these three … the [USPTO] takes the position that process inventions generally are unpatentable unless they 'result in a physical transformation of an article' or are 'tied to a particular machine'," he wrote.
It has been assumed that software patents will survive this ruling because they are tied to a machine, since they cannot be useful without a computer on which to run.
But Duffy claims that more recent USPTO rulings say that a general purpose computer is not a machine in that sense, and that software is not patentable if it has to rely on a computer being the machine in that definition.
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then later in the article
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The rules require first that an invention create a 'physical transformation of an article'. Duffy said that cannot be said to be true of Google's system
"The total output from the Google patent is just a mass of intangible data, and worse still it is intangible data about intangible documents. Simply put, there’s no 'physical,' no 'transformation,' and no 'article.'," wrote Duffy. "It seems impossible to imagine that a process would qualify where it only scores virtual documents by virtual links to other virtual documents."
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dose that not seem to be similar to the phorms system, so if my reading is correct that is phorms patents blown out the water!! and phorms patents are useless
so therefor they can't even hope for a takeover or buy out as they do not hold enforcable patents on their technology
interesting situation
peter