License/Patent clarity? [Was: Re: [SCIM] SCIM and Wubi

[LiuCougar]

How long is the duration of such kind of patents in China please? 15 years?

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:07:27 +0800, Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   Wubi has two version, Wubi 86 and Wubi 98. They are two different
> patents. Wubi 86 has expired since 2000. The Wubi table in
> scim-tables-zh is a Wubi 86 table. So it has no patent issue.
> 
> Regards
> James Su
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 12:24:33 -0700 (PDT), Hideki Hiura
> <hiura at openi18n.org> wrote:
> > James,
> >
> > > From: James Su <suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn>
> > > Oh, yes, you are right. Now I understand. And the good news is, scim
> > > table module can handle this issue already. If you give me the 1-to-1
> > > table, I can try to make a dvorak-wubi table.
> >
> > I have a naive question on the license/patent clarity on WuBi.
> >
> > IIIMF has WuBI for years but only shipped with its distribution on
> > Solaris and Java Desktop System under redistribution license. Because
> > it's just a table, I tried but I was unable to opensource WuBi,
> > because I was told that the idea/concept of WuBi is patented or
> > strictly licensed or something legal which prevented me to get through
> > the clearance.
> >
> > If this is just that I got a wrong information, it would be great!
> > so that I can revive the project to opensource WuBi, but otherwise...
> >
> > Would someone who has an access to the patent infomation in China
> > be possible to check the patent database?
> >
> > I happened to get an AI from Japanese govt party, on the way back from
> > Beijing, to investigate input method related patents, triggered by the
> > meeting with CESI/SAC two weeks ago,which you were a part of it,
> > James.  So far I've skimmed only roughly through the patents filed in
> > the U.S. and Japan, and found over 400 patents on input methods were
> > filed in Japan.  They apparently cover quite bit of technology from
> > basic to advanced.
> >
> > Patent clearance is very important part of security, and any one of
> > patent infringements could be a show-stopper.
> >
> > --
> > hiura@{freestandards.org,OpenI18N.org,li18nux.org,unicode.org,sun.com}
> > Chair, OpenI18N.org/The Free Standards Group          http://www.OpenI18N.org
> > Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc, USA   eFAX: 509-693-8356
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > scim mailing list
> > scim at freedesktop.org
> > http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/scim
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
> scim mailing list
> scim at freedesktop.org
> http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/scim
>