Digital BW, The Print

Hi Wendel.
I wasn't defending anyone. You will note I said if one were copying
Epsons design they were at risk--- as well they should be. The same
language I referred to appears in every patent I've ever looked at.(
That is quite a few and I lift ideas from them all the time for
personal use(not sale or profit).) The small inventor gets the same
protections as anyone else. Money however does talk as we all know.
It isn't unusual for the meaning of a word to be turned upside down
when slick legal help gets involved. Justice can be
sometimes......well, lets say distant ;-{

Regards
Duane

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Wendel White
<wendel@...> wrote:
>
> So, is the opposite true? If a small entrepreneur develops a unique
product,
> we should defend the large companies that want to infringe on the
patent?
> 
> Wendel
> 
> > 
> > The problems arise because patents are worded in such a
> > way(deliberately of course) as to attempt to include any and all
> > variations or future changes no matter how distant from the origonal
> > concept so as to maintain a stranglehold on a market.
> > 
> > Because the Epson's of the world have much deeper pockets than any
> > small entreprenure they can often muscle out the competition just by
> > creating costly obstacles to doing business. It is usually only
> > temporarily effective though.
>