Sat, Jan 08, 2011
Let's Start Some REAL Dialogue On This Issue
In all the hub-bub created by the
Flight Prep controversy, we're concerned that substantive
discussion aren't taking place and some of the real issues seem to
be falling by the wayside. The few questions we've seen (partially)
addressed are the kind of soft-ball interrogatories that are easy
to defuse and evade... and do little to bring comprehension to the
matter.
That being the case, we're sending the first in a series of
questions to the folks at FlightPrep in the hopes that they'll see
fit to address these issues for the aviation world to see. We
honestly feel that if their motives are as simple as they claim...
to see that their Intellectual Property is respected and their work
properly recognized and compensated, that these are are proper
questions to be asking.
- What are the unique aspects of your invention that allowed you
to succeed in receiving the patent that is at the center of this
controversy... i.e., what unique IP did you invent that did not
exist previously?

- Why did you seem to target low revenue or non-revenue business
providing free services to the GA community in your legal actions
and patent compensation claims and why not other more
profitable/substantial companies?
- What aspects, features, technology or properties in use on
RunwayFinder.com allegedly infringed on your patent?

RunwayFinder.com
- What aspects, features, technology or properties in use on
NavMonster.com allegedly infringed on your patent?

- What aspects, features, technology or properties in use on
skyvector.com allegedly infringed on your patent?
- You have apparently sent letters to AOPA, Jeppesen, Fltplan.com
and other online businesses and programs in order to seek potential
compensation for possible infringement of your IP/Patent... could
you please articulate, in detail, what each of these programs might
be doing that would be a violation of your patented IP?
- You have reportedly asked for discussions with potential
infringers of your IP -- confidential discussions that would
have been conducted in secrecy and outside of public inspection or
examination... is this the only manner in which you will discuss
these issues? In other words, are you amenable to discuss these
issues outside of the strict confidentiality restrictions you have
allegedly placed on those you believe to be infringing on your IP?
- Why has FlightPrep sought to restrict commentary on its blogs
and FaceBook pages?
- What effect has the anti-FlightPrep sentiment had on your
company?
- If you had the chance to wind the clock back a bit... how might
you have approached your IP/Patent compensation issues, and the
reaction to same, differently than the path you took to this
point?
- Is it your intention, via this patent (or future patents), to
extend your IP claims to flight planning products and programs not
using online methods of dissemination?
- What other patent applications are you undertaking at this
time?
Please respond to publisher@aero-news.net...
we look forward to reporting your answers and insights in an
upcoming Aero-News report. Thank you for your time and attention.
Once these questions are answered, we will, no doubt, have some
additional thoughts to share and some questions to ask as a
result... it is our hope that this discourse will bring clarity to
an already muddled, emotionally charged, situation.
Sincerely,
James Richard Campbell, ANN
Editor-In-Chief
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