(keitai-l) Re: FunMail patent?

Hi, 
My opinion is that patent pending means that they have filed patent
application, but it haven't handled yet, so it is not public. Some
countries, like Finland, Sweden etc gives some information about filed
applications, like who is filed, who is inventor and what is the name of
patent, but for example U.S.PTO wount give this kind of information.
Normally U.S.PTO handles this kind of technology patents under 2 years,
so maybe 2003 we know what was this invention.

When they have filed this application to U.S. PTO, they get date, when
they have filed it. Then they have one year to file it all other
countries and those applications will get same date than the first one.

Br, Tapio Hämeen-Anttila


-----Original Message-----
From: Solberg, Kristian [mailto:SolbergK@logica.com]
Sent: 15. tammikuuta 2001 7:25
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: FunMail patent?


Searched the US Patent / Trademark Office (
http://164.195.100.11/netahtml/search-bool.html ) but couldn't find
FunMail
as a patent holder. Remember that getting a US patent is relatively easy
(examples such as Amazon's "one-click shopping" speak for themselves).
This
patent however is only valid for the US, and can not be enforced outside
of
US jurisdiction. For a patent to be valid in Japan, it has to registered
there. As an example RSA's patent on its digital signatures algorithms
were
only registered in the US, and the technology was used freely in the
rest of
the world without paying royalties.

Kristian

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Stuart MacDonald [mailto:stuart@fs.catv.ne.jp] 
Sent:	Monday, January 15, 2001 2:31
To:	keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject:	(keitai-l) Re: FunMail patent?

Check it out through the free ibm Patent database.... um, that is if
they
took out patent in the U.S., I am not sure if they cover the Japan
region
patents. Anyway there is a lot of interesting reads in the DB and the
claims
are about the first thing that you get to see.

-stuart
Titech

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mika Tuupola" <tuupola@appelsiini.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) FunMail patent?


>
> The article
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010112/funmail.html
>
> mentions "FunMail uses the unique, patent pending, language
> independent text-to-animation technology developed by FunMail,
> Inc."
>
> Does anyone know what this patent will hold? Due to many trivial
> software patents approved lately I hope this wont be anything
> trivial like "animation based on the user input".
>
> --
> Mika Tuupola                      http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
>
>
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