Re: [hylafax-users] Problem on the Patent Front

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Underwood wrote:

> Hylafax has no problems with these patents. It is how you might use 
> HylaFAX, rather than HylaFAX itself which count put you in a position 
> of infringement.


Are you sure about this?

While it's true that the Supreme Court recently ruled against Grokster 
because Grokster had taken affirmative steps to foster infringement.  As 
HylaFAX solicits fax-to-email capability, as the code makes doing so 
trivial in configuration, and as the community discusses it frequently, 
I'm not sure that there's a clear "safe zone" in which HylaFAX resides.

Whether or not the patents are anything less silly than patenting frozen 
juice bars is questionable, yet nonetheless the patents do exist, and 
that gives the holder every right to sue whomever they may see 
infringing upon their Congress-approved monopoly on the so-called invention.

Lee.


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