[AccessD] Database Patent

I concur.

Drew (Though now we have another Dallas area member, maybe we'll have a
conference in Texas yet!)

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:45 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Database Patent

Jack,

Thanks for clarifying the situation. The client may have the greatest
thing since sliced bread, but it's unlikely to be unique.  Most of us
don't bother with copyright/patent applications because any competent
programmer could come up with virtually identical code for the same
problem.  It isn't so much that it's in public domain as that there are
a finite number of ways to deal effectively with a problem, and the
developer community tends to share their methods, so eventually the code
is homogenized into something we could all claim as our own.  If the
client created a database engine, that's a different product entirely,
but I suspect you've been sold a pup.

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jack Stone
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 11:03 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Database Patent

All,

Hello, my name is Jack Stone, new to this forum.  I am the patent,
trademark, and copyright attorney that Rocky referred to that has the
client who got the subject patent, and on whose patent my name is listed
as the attorney of record.  First, I want to express how extremely
impressed I am, not only with the vast wealth of knowledge you guys
collectively have, but also with how you are all so willing to take the
time to share it, for which I am very grateful.

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