[governance] Re: Verisign's Patent Application for the Transfer of DNSSEC Domains

[Riaz K Tayob]

Sala

Nice article this. Essential technologies or those in the "public 
interest" ought to be accessible.

However, the rentiers in the US prevented South Africa from providing 
HIV medication using public health patent exceptions... the case was 
BigPharma vs Mandela and others... if that was the case for very obvious 
deaths what chance "obscure" internet technologies...?

And for arguments sake, would not letting the US CIR companies patent 
everything they can actually reduce the viability of the US as a CIR hub 
(i.e. patent exclusions in other jurisdictions could become more 
accommodating especially since Verisign has to disclose its info in the 
patent application)? And with shoddy patenting standards one can expect 
a right royal mess in a context of a litigious country...

Riaz

On 2012/10/11 11:10 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Here's my perspective:
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121011_perspective_on_verisign_patent_application_on_domain_transfers/
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sala


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