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Gold/Mining/Energy : Arcon Energy (MIDL Presently) The Ultimate Sleeper -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TJG who wrote (3280)	6/12/1998 12:31:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 4142

Sorry, TJG, your patent info is way off base. Arcon didn't discover the process, Research Octane Inc. did. Inventors of record are Jarvis (holds 2 or 3) and Wilson (holds 5). See the patent filings. patents.ibm.com patents.ibm.com The current assignee of the patents is Research Octane Inc. No reassignments have been filed (rather none are online). Attorneys of record are Oltman, Flynn & Kubler ... I haven't found them yet. =================================== It is my reading that the patents have not been acquired per se, they have been licensed or the right transferred. In any case, I have seen no information on the actual terms of the intellectual property agreements. In short, we have no specific information about what rights Arcon holds or may hold in the future. =================================== Arcon has used the wording "world-wide patent rights" in several releases. This is probably a false claim, made out of ignorance. Again, without being able to see the history of the various filing activities, I can't say for sure but getting patent coverage in 140 countries costs upwards of $20 million and takes more than 5 years effectively. Filing a US patent gives you no rights in other countries. You must file in each country for which you want coverage. Typically the filing (which generally takes at least several rounds of documents) must be done in the language of the country of application. This can get expensive in a big hurry. One exception is that you can get a weak form of protection in Europe by filing with a central office (can be done in English). In addition, filing a US patent establishes a date of record for the invention which starts the clocks ticking in all the other countries ... each of which has their own time requirements. So once you file a US patent, you have to follow-up in the countries in which you desire coverage, or lose the ability to get that coverage. ================================== An infringement suit may be filed by anyone at any time. The company holding the patent is required to defend the patent actively or there is a presumption that the patent in invalid. Filing a spurious suit is a typical technique used to create expense and distraction. =================================== Patent and copyright law are completely different. Castaway songwriters ought not to be construed with Kentucky distillers.