IP: Joint interview with Todd Dickenson and Tim O'Reilly on patents

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:14:04 -0700
>From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim@oreilly.com>
>To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Joint interview with Todd Dickenson and Tim O'Reilly on patents
>
>Link: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/28/1435241.shtml
>Posted by: jamie, on 2000-05-28 22:30:00 EDT
>Dept: don't-want-to-be-Jerry-Springer-but, topic: Patents
>
>    [1]jbc writes "The O'Reilly Network is running a [2]debate between
>Tim
>    O'Reilly and Patent Office Director Q. Todd Dickinson. Among the
>    highlights is Tim's call for a Slashdot-like forum to serve as a
>means
>    of identifying prior art." A bare-knuckled debate, not as in-depth as
>    I'd have liked, but it's good to know Diskinson's perspective.
>Someone
>    else mentioned a [3]list of educational patents on computer assisted
>    instruction techniques some of which go back to the 1960s.
>
>References
>
>    1. mailto:jbc@west.net
>    2. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/patents/2000/05/24/PizzoFiles.html
>    3. http://www.freepatents.org/examples/education.html
>
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