At 03:27 PM 7/25/2002, Cynthia Odonohue wrote:
>Carl and PIUG List readers
>
>Please see comment below re the free software, GetIODL.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Farone [mailto:Farone@appliedpowerconcepts.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:40 PM
>To: 'Cynthia Odonohue'
>Subject: RE: A reminder about GetIPDL
>
>I went to this site and read what it says. I hope the people who use this
>realize that a log of everything they do is being sent back to the writer of
>this program. He could make a bundle by selling that intelligence to the
>competition or to the Industry in Japan that could use it to gain an
>advantage in patent cases.
>
>This may be one of the slickest pieces of Industrial Espionage or truly a
>useful program but my secrecy agreements with clients preclude me from using
>it and I will bet that is true for virtually all of the people using it!
See http://www.aurora.dti.ne.jp/~ujihara/GetIPDL/Historyen.html, where the
author of GetIPDL says:
"I get your logs, which do not contain any patent numbers, to prevent
indiscriminate downloading."
I think it's pretty likely the author is telling the truth, namely that the
logs he obtains do not contain any patent numbers. If so, then Mr. Farone
might be incorrect to say that it is a log of "everything they do." And if
so, then it seems unlikely the author could "make a bundle" selling
intelligence.
I wonder where and how Mr. Farone gets patent images with complete
assurance of "secrecy"?
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