[Fwd: AW: More UB-Tree patent information]

Hi everyone,

This is Prof. Bayer's response to the question "is it alright to use
UB-Tree's in Open Source projects?".

It's a "No, but we can discuss a licensing model" type answer.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: AW: More UB-Tree patent information
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:26:05 +0200
From: "Prof. Rudolf Bayer" <bayer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
To: "Justin Clift" <justin@postgresql.org>

Dear Justin,
I am personally holder of the patents.
concerning your question:
> Specifically wondering if it's alright to use UB-Tree's in
> Open Source projects.
the answer is NO, unless there is a patent agreement with me.
Please let me know, what specifically the interests and business models
are,
then we could discuss a licensing model in line with the already
existing
license agreements,
best regards,
R. Bayer
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Prof. Rudolf Bayer, Ph.D.
Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Orleansstr. 34, D-81667 Muenchen, Germany
tel: ++49-89-48095 171     email: bayer@in.tum.de
fax: ++49-89-48095 170     http://www3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Justin Clift [mailto:justin@postgresql.org]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. April 2002 23:04
> An: Professor Rudolf Bayer
> Cc: PostgreSQL General Mailing List
> Betreff: More UB-Tree patent information
>
>
> Hi Prof. Bayer,
>
> Haven't heard anything back from you regarding the patents on
> UB-Tree's.  Specifically wondering if it's alright to use UB-Tree's in
> Open Source projects.
>
> On a related topic, in your paper "The Universal B-Tree for
> multidimensional Indexing"
> (http://mistral.in.tum.de/results/publications/TUM-I9637.pdf) you
> mention a German "Patent Pending" number of "196 35 429.3", is this the
> one which was approved in Europe?
>
> In the paper "Bulk Loading a Data Warehouse built upon a UB-Tree"
> (http://mistral.in.tum.de/results/publications/FKM+00.pdf) it mentions
> the Japanese Patent filed on 22nd May 2000, Application Number
> 2000-149648.  Is this the Japanese patent for UB-Trees which hasn't yet
> been approved?
>
> :)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
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