[178100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [OT] Re: Intellectual Property in Network Design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sun Feb 15 09:58:09 2015
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:57:38 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: Skeeve Stevens <skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> This assumes that Copyright is the only IP protection out there. There
> are actually two distinct realms of IP protection afforded in the US.
Actually, there are four: copyright, patent, trademark and trade
secret. A network configuration could fall under either copyright or
trade secret. It won't fall under trademark and it's hard to imagine
how a network configuration of a general shape anticipated by the
router manufacturer could fall under patent. Not with the
double-whammy of prior art and the recent rulings to the effect that
adding "on a computer" to a technique is insufficient to make it
patentable.
> However, all of the technicalities on this stuff vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
> The broad strokes have been normalized through treaties for the most part, but
> details and technicalities still vary quite a bit.
There are only so many jurisdictions with distinct law in North
America. You know, this being NANOG and all.
-Bill
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