Q: http://web.archive.org/web/19970405234251im_/http://www.algonet.se/~jason/pixfac.html Pixel Factory Reg 1996 prv.se
Pixel Factory was registered by me in Sweden in 1996, They first said I could not use the name because they did not know what a pixel was.
I explained a process I developed to make a SHDV from Kodak Gold Pro Photo CD scans of a 3 year construction site for Stockholms New Karolinska Institute Research Hospital and rhey stole it for Digital medical imaging.
?. What would you do, now 20 years later.
A:
Sorry, but your post is pretty confusing, and the link does not work. Let me see if we can unwrap this a bit.
Was the Pixel Factory registered as a trademark, or did you get a patent? If it is the former, then they do not need to know what a pixel is. Nobody knew what the word Coca-Cola or Kodak before they were registered. In any case, the term "Pixel Factory" is listed in the Swedish Trademark Database as owned by Airbus DS Geo SA.
If you instead applied for a patent, and if it was rejected and you did not get a patent, then your invention was most likely published. If you didn't get a patent on your invention, and the application is published, then anyone can use it. In any case, if you would have gotten a patent, it would have expired by now.
You mentioned that the Hospital stole it from you. That is a pretty serious accusation to be charging the Karolinska. How do you know that they stole from you? Do you have any proof that they stole it, or is it just a hunch because it just looks too similar to your Pixel Factory?
Please talk to a Swedish attorney if you have a case.
--Peter Mlynek
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