RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CPNC and Patents

I have been following this thread this morning and have a real problem with
all this patent stuff. Sure people have a right to protect their designs
but if you come up with a new way to build your widget in the current
climate you might as well keep it to yourself. There is nothing new in the
world, only new ways to use existing technology. If you take this seriously
then any form of machine control not manufactured or sold by one of the
patent holding corporations should be pulled of the market. THAT'S A BUNCH
OF BULL!! What I am hearing is that our patent laws and the corresponding
legal system are only designed to prevent new development and invention, not
promote it. I guess Dan Mauch should go out of business, Tom Kulga should
not have developed his DRO board and none of the low cost CNC solutions
should exit. In fact from what you have all been saying NIST should stop
the EMC project because that too violates some patent somewhere. Here we
are, one of the greatest nations in the world but we can't develop anything
new because of the damn lawyers!!

Ok, I am off my soap box for now.

John Guenther
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Bartholomew [mailto:bb@...]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 7:23 AM
To: cad_cam_edm_dro@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CPNC and Patents

> For what I could find out, it cost around $200,000 to fight
> Hurco. About half of what Hurco wanted to settle out of court.

Wow, that's cheap. Panels on IP law appear from time to time at
computer conferences, and the minimum price they report for an
innocent company to either defend their patent, or defend themselves
against an illegitimate patent, is "most of a million dollars".

Do you know if Haas recovered the $200K from Hurco?

Brian

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