bsd 协议 patent_Google Just Patent Gears吗？为什么？-CSDN博客

bsd 协议 patent

A recently published patent application for a “system that facilitates using a web-based client-server application offline” sounds a lot like Google’s Gears project. The patent was filed by Erik Arvidsson, who blog posts reveal is an engineer on the Gears team, and by Andrew Palay, who listed Computer Scientist at Google as his occupation when donating the Barack Obama campaign earlier this year. So the evidence would suggest that this is indeed a patent application from Google concerning Gears.

最近发布的一项有关“一种有助于离线使用基于Web的客户端-服务器应用程序的系统”的专利申请听起来很像Google的Gears项目。该专利由Erik Arvidsson提出，他的博客文章透露是Gears团队的一名工程师，由Andrew Palay提出，他在今年早些时候捐赠Barack Obama运动时将 Google的计算机科学家列为他的职业。因此，有证据表明这确实是Google关于Gears的专利申请。

Google’s official stance about the US patent system is that it is broken. The company has pushed for patent reform in order to stop “frivolous patent claims from parties gaming the system to forestall competition or reap windfall profits.”

谷歌对美国专利制度的官方立场是它被打破了。该公司一直在推动专利改革，以制止“游戏系统各方为防止竞争或获得暴利而进行的轻而易举的专利索赔。”

Further, earlier this year, when the Gears project turned one year old, Google talked about their commitment to open standards and how Gears was a major part of spreading those standards around the web. So why would Google seek a patent for their open source system, which was open source from day one and created in collaboration with Adobe, Opera, and Mozilla, if that is indeed what they’ve done?

此外，今年年初，当Gears项目成立一周年之时，Google谈到了他们对开放标准的承诺，以及Gears如何成为在网络上传播这些标准的重要组成部分。那么，为什么Google确实要为其开放源代码系统申请专利呢？如果这确实是他们所做的，那么该开放源代码系统从第一天开始就是开放源代码，并与Adobe，Opera和Mozilla共同创建。

Two reasons come to mind: the maybe-not-so-evil defensive patent, to be used to make sure that someone else doesn’t try to mess up what the open source community is doing with Gears by filing a frivolous patent for something identical. It might be worth noting that the patent filing date – May 30, 2007 – is the same day that they announced Gears, so perhaps this was a preemptive strike.

我想到两个原因：也许不是那么邪恶的防御性专利，用于确保其他人不会通过为相同的东西申请琐碎的专利来弄乱开源社区对Gears所做的事情。值得注意的是，专利申请日期为2007年5月30日，是他们宣布Gears的同一天，因此这也许是先发制人的罢工。

Or it could be that Google is up to something more sinister, and plans to use a Gears patent to block competition.

也可能是Google处于更加险恶的境地，并计划使用Gears专利来阻止竞争。

What do you think?

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