Re: [Re: [ga] GoDaddy:

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

Very witty Michael, but what I find weird is that the same culture that
claims to promote the free market and competition, is also the culture that
tries to infringe the rights of others to compete, through the burgeoning IP
lobby and the attempt to "own" through patents, and keep others out of
legitimate competition. If this was done in the interests of the common
good, then there might be some sympathy, but the culture is driven by
corporate greed and the desire to "lock out" others and stop them from
competing.

What I find sad is that ICANN - in its administration of the world's DNS -
has such a propensity to embrace the predators at the expense of the
consumers, and condone the "annexing off" of language, ideas and the DNS,
instead of protecting an open market. It is absolutely obvious that access
to domain names - in this case expiring domain names - should not be
constrained by one entity claiming a monopoly of access. The case for a
patent in this specific case implies an assumption that a corporate interest
has the right to prevent others from offering similar services and similar
access to this element of the DNS.

The widespread perception is that ICANN is merely an agency/satellite of the
United States, working in the interests of big business and corporations,
and protecting the ability of the US to exert controls over this worldwide
resource. Such a hijacking of this resource is offensive to those who
believe that the Internet and the DNS belong to a far wider community, much
of it excluded from effective decision-making in the ICANN Boardroom.

John Berryhill, of course, relies for his reputation upon a certain
detachment and objectivity in such matters : but they are certainly matters
which merit close scrutiny.

Richard Henderson

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael D. Palage <michael@palage.com>
To: John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. <john@johnberryhill.com>; Elliot Noss
<enoss@tucows.com>; Andy Gardner <andy@navigator.co.nz>; <ga@dnso.org>;
<discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: [Re: [ga] GoDaddy:


> Here are some additional questions that I would like to propose to the
list.
>
> Question #1:
> On what date does John Berryhill stop posting material to the list
> concerning this subject matter. The significance of this event is that is
> the date John is likely to be retained by a client in this matter. Having
> gotten to know John over the years, he would never engage in such a public
> discussion if he was representing a client because of the potential
ethical
> considerations that it would raise.
>
> Question #2
> When John goes silent, who is the client that has retained his services:
> SnapNames; VeriSign; Doster; TUCOWS; or some other registrar(s). This is
the
> question that I find most interesting because John probably does have the
> biggest inbox of prior art on the subject matter.
>
> Mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of John
> > Berryhill Ph.D. J.D.
> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:21 AM
> > To: Elliot Noss; Andy Gardner; ga@dnso.org; discuss-list@opensrs.org
> > Subject: Re: [Re: [ga] GoDaddy:
> >
> >
> >
> > From: "Elliot Noss" <enoss@tucows.com>
> >
> >
> > > John, are you sure about 12/99? I thought it was 2000 as well.
> >
> > If you take a look at the first paragraph of the application, it states:
> >
> > "[0001] This application is a continuation of and claims priority
> > from U.S.
> > Provisional Patent Application No. 60/245,102, filed Nov. 1,
> > 2000, and U.S.
> > Provisional Patent Application No. 60/248,341, filed Nov. 13, 2000. "
> >
> > There are several things going on here.  First of all, a US patent
> > application can claim the filing date of an earlier-filed provisional
> > application, so long as the regular application is filed within a
> > year of the
> > provisional.  That was done here.
> >
> > There were two provisional applications filed in November 2000.  We do
not
> > know at this time to what extent those provisionals may or may not have
> > adequately supported the claimed material of the later US
> > applications.  But
> > for the purpose of focussing efforts productively, it is conservative to
> > assume that the support was there.
> >
> > So, that assumption provides the pending application with an
> > effective filing
> > date of November 2000.
> >
> > Now, there are a couple of categories of things that qualify as prior
art.
> > One category would be to show that the invention was known and
> > used by others
> > prior to the invention thereof by the applicant.  However, the date of
> > invention is not objectively knowable on the basis of evidence
> > available to
> > us.
> >
> > The most reliable category of prior art are things that were in
> > public use,
> > published, or on sale more than one year prior to the effective
> > filing date
> > of the application.  That critical date is objectively knowable
> > to us at this
> > time, and that date is November 1, 1999.
> >
> > Additionally, everyone ought to know that during prosecution of a
> > US patent
> > application, anyone connected with the application (the
> > applicant, the owner,
> > etc.) has a duty to submit copies of relevant prior art
> > information of which
> > they are aware.  There's no duty to go out and look for stuff,
> > but assuming
> > they are reading this list, then they would do well to submit copies of
> > relevant archives that are posted here.  This will help them obtain a
> > stronger patent, as will any attempt to submit material to the
> > patent office
> > at this time, since they will be the only ones involved in arguing
around
> > such material and/or amending the claims ever so slightly to avoid a
> > rejection based on such material.
> >
> >
> >
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