Anyway, it appears these lawsuits and counter-lawsuits will wrap up by May of 2017 unless a settlement is reached in which case, even earlier. InterNACHI is only going to settle if HomeSafe relinquishes the patents to InterNACHI. It is a condition of us dropping our lawsuits against the owner of HomeSafe (the Judge ruled that we were free to sue the owner personally).
If we get ownership of the patents, and I think we will… I, on behalf of InterNACHI, am hereby publicly promising to make the patents public domain.
So the patients will be free for use, but you will be suing members of other associations who advertise including it with home inspections? Or free for all home inspectors to use without fear?
Placing them in the public domain requires relinquishing all rights to them. There would be no further ownership of the processes defined in them. They would be free for public use, which means by anyone.
I know what that interpretation means chuck, but I was asking Nick if that was his intent as I have previously heard different. But it’s always best to get info straight from the horse’s mouth, than to believe rumours, so I asked.
