Re: Bezos on 1-click ordering (fwd)

[Nicolai Rosen <nick@netaxs.com>]

Patent's the same thing. You need to protect it and stomp it out. It's
likely that the courts would see what he's doing as enought protection
though, however to come right out & say he's letting the little guy go
might be a bit overboard.

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Adam Turoff wrote:

> Forwarded message:
> > Date: Fri,  3 Mar 2000 21:58:54 -0800
> > From: Neil Bauman <neil@geekcruises.com>
> > Subject: Re: Bezos on 1-click ordering
> > To: phl@lists.pm.org
> > 
> > On 3/3/00 at 9:42 PM, ziggy@panix.com (Adam Turoff) wrote:
> > 
> > > Ummm, if you don't protect a patent, doesn't that invalidate it?  Or
> > > am I thinking about copyrights/trademarks?
> > 
> > You are right, Adam, that to maintain your trademark you must seek and
> > destroy all illegal uses of your trademark (that you are aware of). I
> > think a copyright is a totally different beast as one should be getting
> > royalties from the use one's copyrighted material. As for a patent, I
> > don't know the use rules but suspect Bezos knows what he can legally
> > pursue and what he doesn't have to pursue.
> > 
> > Neil R. Bauman, Captain
> > Geek Cruises, Inc. (www.GeekCruises.com)
> > 1430 Parkinson Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
> > 
> > 650-327-3692; Fax: 520-396-2102; Cell phone: 215-519-0141
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Nicolai Rosen
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