Re: [emergency] Azos AI, LLC Patent

["Carl Reed OGC Account" <creed@opengeospatial.org>]

For those who follow legal rulings related to IPR and patents, the Supreme 
Court this week ruled on a case (KSR vs. Teleflex). Basically, the ruling 
changes the rules making it tougher to prove that a technology isn't 
obvious, one of the key hurdles for getting and defending a patent.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203296


Carl



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Art Botterell" <acb@incident.com>
To: "Emergency_Mgt_TC TC" <emergency@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [emergency] Azos AI, LLC Patent


> How cute!  Baby's first Patent Troll!
>
> I guess I should be worried about someone trying to cash in on the 
> multi-million dollar CAP industry, but this one is so absurdly off  the 
> mark I'm having trouble getting a proper grump on.
>
> (Can't resist quoting from the sidebar on that very page of 
> patentstorm.us:
>
>   Today In History Patent No. 382,280
>   May 1, 1888)
>   Nikola Tesla granted a patent for the "electrical transmission of 
> power".)
>
> I assume there's language on the OASIS site to the effect that  assertions 
> posted on that page are unverified and that their  publication there 
> neither establishes nor stipulates their validity?
>
> - Art
>
>
> On May 1, 2007, at 5/1/07 1:36 PM, Aymond, Patti wrote:
>
>> While reviewing the EDXL-RM document, I found a surprising (to me, 
>> anyway) comment on the EM-TC IPR page (http://www.oasis-open.org/ 
>> committees/emergency/ipr.php):
>>
>> “Azos AI, LLC. (Azos) holds United States Patent Number 6,359,970  which 
>> we believe to be essential to the compliant implementation of  the 
>> Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information  Standards 
>> (OASIS) Common Alerting Protocol Committee Specification  Version 1.1 
>> (the "Specification"). Azos is willing to offer  nonexclusive licenses 
>> under this issued patent, upon written  request from implementers wishing 
>> to pursue compliant  implementation of the Specification. These licenses 
>> will be  provided under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and 
>> conditions, in accordance with Azos' then current licensing  practices.”
>>
>> Someone seeing this may conclude that a license for Azos AI  technology 
>> is required for CAP compliance. Do we have any recourse  in removing the 
>> comment or at least refuting it on the EM-TC IPR page?
>>
>> Patti
>>
>>
>> Patti Iles Aymond, PhD
>> Senior Scientist, Research & Development
>>
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