[step-manufacturing] RE: Meeting schedule for WG7 and SC1 in Frankfurt/Germany

Sat Aug 18 05:06:52 EDT 2007

Hi! Everyone,

This is an interesting matter. Prof. Suh’s STEP-NC controller patent had 
our attention soon after it was lodged. I agree with Ian’s points. 
However, I do not think the patent has an effect of suffocating the 
STEP-NC research. Nor do I think this is what Prof. Suh was intended 
for, let along that there is still so much work to do and a long long 
way ahead us before STEP manufacturing can truly take off.

Another positive spin out of this patent as far as I can see, is that it 
may send a signal to the relevant industry that STEP-NC research and the 
solutions it offers DO have commercial values (hence the patent). In 
other words, no one would lodge a patent if what is patented for has 
little commercial potetial.

Cheers

Xun

Xun W Xu (PhD)
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering, University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland Mail Centre
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Tel: ++64 9 373 7599 ext. 84527, Fax: 64 9 373 7479
http://www.engineers.auckland.ac.nz/~xxu008/

Stroud Ian Anthony wrote:
>
> Dear Martin Hardwick and Everyone,
>
> This is just to inform you that I intend to attend the Frankfurt 
> SC1/WG7 meeting. You mentioned that Mr. Sakamoto will represent T24, 
> is there any particular question that is due to be discussed?
>
> I have a couple of comments about your mention of Professor Suh’s 
> patent. First of all, I think that this is now a tendency, to protect 
> academic research by patents because industry has, in the past, been 
> all too ready to exploit published academic research without 
> reimbursing either the original researchers or the funding agencies. 
> This area of Intellectual Property seems very fuzzy and patent 
> applications seem a natural tool for protecting researcher’s 
> interests. I see what look suspiciously like my published algorithms 
> in CAD systems and I certainly haven’t received any royalties. More 
> importantly, since academics are now evaluate, probably almost 
> everywhere, the lack of credit by commercial companies is a problem. 
> Forcing commercial companies to acknowledge their use of academic work 
> is also important. Finally, as far as I can see, Professor Suh’s 
> patent is a protection for further research. It is far better that the 
> patent is in the hands of one of us than in the hands of some 
> commercial vendor who might limit our research. I certainly trust 
> Professor Suh not to block either academic or commercial developments. 
> Even if a fee is payable to cover the cost of the original patent 
> application I would be able to justify a one-off payment as part of a 
> project. Is this to be discussed in Frankfurt?
>
> Best regards – Ian Stroud
>
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>
> *From:* Martin Hardwick [mailto:hardwick at steptools.com]
> *Sent:* mardi, 7. août 2007 19:04
> *To:* Suk-Hwan Suh; Mr. Proctor (NIST); ???; ???; ??; ???; 
> Glantschnig1; Hascoet; HENTZ Jean-Bernard; 'HYSakamoto'; Stroud Ian 
> Anthony; marchand (CETIM-Fr); Ms V.Maupin ; protic catherine; Rossi; 
> Sakamoto Chiaki; Suk-Hwan SUH; vankhai.nguyen at etat.ge.ch; vitr; wesche
> *Cc:* step-manufacturing at steptools.com
> *Subject:* Re: Meeting schedule for WG7 and SC1 in Frankfurt/Germany
>
>
> Dear Members of T24,
>
> At our last meeting in Ibusuki we agreed that Mr. Sakamoto of Japan 
> and the deputy leader of T24 would represent us at the S1/Wg7 meeting 
> in Frankfurt.
>
> If you plan to attend this meeting please be aware that there is a 
> patent on ISO 14649 implementation held by Professor Suh.
>
> http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6795749-claims.html
>
> Martin Hardwick
> Team Leader T24 STEP-Manufacturing
>
>
>
> At 05:24 AM 8/7/2007, Suk-Hwan Suh wrote:
>
> Dear All:
>
> As the Convener of ISO TC184/SC1/WG7, I would like to invite you to 
> the Joint Meeting between ISO TC184/SC1/WG7 & ISO TC184/SC4/T24 within 
> the framework of 16th Annual Meeting for ISO TC184/SC1 to be held in 
> Frankfurt/Germany as follows.
>
> 1. Time table
>
>
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> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />08:00 – 12:00
>
> 12:00-13:30
>
> 13:30 – 17:00
>
> Meeting Place
>
> Oct 1 (Mo)
>
> WG7/T24
>
> Lunch
>
> WG7/T24
>
> VDMA
>
> Oct 2 (Tu)
>
> WG7/T24
>
> Lunch
>
> /SC1 Plenary/
>
> VDMA
>
> Oct 3 (We)*
>
> WG7/T24
>
> Lunch
>
> WG7/T24
>
> Hotel INNSIDE*
>
>
> 2. Agenda (See attachment for details)
>
> 2nd Ed of ISO 14649; Part 1, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 111, Part 
> 121 NWIP for ISO 14649 Part 110 NWIP/DIS ISO 14649 Part 13, Part 14 
> NWIPs for Inspection, RP, Robot, etc.
>
> 3. Special note
> October 3 is National Holiday in Germany, and VDMA will be closed. For 
> the Meeting on Oct 3, Mr. Rossi, Chair of SC1, picked up a hotel 
> (INNSIDE) located opposite VDMA under the followng conditions:
>
> fee per person: 52EUR (incl. lunch, coffee, softdrinks) minimum 6 
> persons persons must stay over night in same hotel (hotel INNSIDE, 
> located opposite VDMA) cancellation until September 1st possible (with 
> no costs)
>
> 4. Request for reply by */August 25/*/
> / As stated in Item 3, for the Oct 3rd Meeting, at least 6 persons 
> should stay over night. Please send us the following information by 
> */August 25/* (Please mark one for all items):
>
> I will attend WG7/T24 Meeting on Oct 1 (Y/N) I will attend WG7/T24 
> Meeting on Oct 2 (Y/N) I will attend WG7/T24 Meeting on Oct 3 (Y/N); 
> If "Y," I will stay in Hotel INNSIDE (Y/N)
>
> 5. The followings are attached:
>
> Draft agenda for WG7& T24 Hotel information; provided by Mr. Wesche, 
> Secretariat of SC1 VDMA Travel Direction; provided by Mr. Wesche, 
> Secretariat of SC1 Agenda for TC184/SC1 Plenary Meeting (2-4 PM, Oct 
> 2) provided by Mr. Wesche, Secretariat of SC1 Invitation to 16th SC1 
> Plenary Meeting/SC1; provided by Mr. Wesche, Secretariat of SC1 
> Resolutions from 15th SC1 Meeting (Hershey, Oct 2006); provided by Mr. 
> Wesche, Secretariat of SC1
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Suk-Hwan SUH, Convener of ISO TC184/SC1/WG7
> -- 
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> Director of Center for Ubiquitous Manufacturing
> Director of National Research Lab for STEP-NC/e-mfg
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