[Zope] Software Patents and Content Management Systems

[Lennart Regebro]

On Apr 5, 2005 12:53 PM, Jan Ulrich Hasecke <janulrich.hasecke at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am sorry for this excessive crossposting, but it is urgent and
> important.

I agree.

> Please consider the listed patent descriptions in context of your
> favorite Zope CMS and give feedback to Holger Blasum or Dirk Steuwer
> from FFII. Clarify to them to which extent your favorite Zope CMS could
> be affected by the given patent.

The name of a patent doesn't really say much. You now asked people,
who mostly are not knowledgeable about patents, to read through a
whole bunch of patents, and say if these may be applicable to their
CMSs. I find that request quite unreasonable. Judging from the english
titles alone, all the patents are applicable to anything that uses
Zope, but I assume this is not what you need to know, as you surely
are aware of that already.

A description (in english) of what the patents actually try to patent
would probably be more useful. It is quite often very hard to figure
that out from the patents itself, unless you are a patent clerk, which
I'm not, and besides there are no links to the patents, so it is
impossible to do anyway.

A list of what is actually supposed to be patented would be possible
for us poor non-lawyers to actually go through and see if they are
relevant.

-- 
Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo     http://www.nuxeo.com/
CPS Content Management     http://www.cps-project.org/