From: Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org>
Subject: Leonardo Chiariglione on patents
To: -email is unavailable-
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:11:13 -0800

Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione is founder of MPEG and executive director of
the Secure Digital Music Initiative. Both projects are involved with
software patents.

http://www.cselt.it/leonardo/paper/standardisation/index.htm#Intellectual_Property

"In the words of one industry representative, the patenting folly now
mainly costs money and does not do any good for the end products."

"Far from promoting progress, as stated in the U. S. Constitution of
1787, this practice is actually hampering it, because companies are
alarmed by the liabilities they take on board when launching products
where gray zones exist concerning patents."

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