Re: [f-cpu] Branding in Germany

["Kondo, Toko" <tokopya@livedoor.com>]

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From: "Michael Riepe" <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>
To: <f-cpu@seul.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [f-cpu] Branding in Germany

There are several steps to the process, the trademark is the only the name
and symbol attached to the product. The patent itself can be futher secured
by an industrial patent which covers esthetics. I believe that's the name of
it. Patents can be registered via the PCT office which governs regional
issues. Registration is relatively cheap. The search of "prior knowledge" is
expensive. This is necessary for a "strong patent" Shortfalls of the
proceedure usually crop up in defining the scope of the patent. Each
addition to the patent also has a nominal fee. Time limits extend to about
18 months for the search.

If I could write your code I would, but what I can do, and what should be on
your mind is securing a marketplace to proxy in some dollars. This I may be
able to help in. However at a time and place.

Chris



> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:42:55AM +0200, Yann Guidon wrote:
> [...]
> > I really hope that this will work. It will re-activate the german
> > mailing list and we'll see how many german people are remaining :-)
>
> The more interesting question is: how many of them aren't just lurkers?
> How many of them will jump in and write VHDL, documentation, supporting
> tools (btw: gcc 3.0 is released) and so on?  A registered trademark is
> nice, but we also need something to trade :)
>
> Oh by the way: we'll soon have the first execution unit that is actually
> synthesizable (merci bien Nicolas!), and I guess I can finish the integer
> divider in a few weeks, too.  We can probably have a complete set of
> synthesizable integer EUs by the end of the year (and I mean THIS year!).
> But we also need the other parts -- instruction fetcher/decoder, register
> unit, scoreboard, crossbar, caches, RAM and bus interfaces and so on.
>
> CU on the bazaar,
> --
>  Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
>  "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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