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Dieter Baurecht  wrote in article
<326B6B0F.2479@univie.ac.at>...
> I am looking for optical filters in MIR region.
> In particular I want a filter that cuts off wavenubers larger than
> 3500cm-1 (at least up to 8000cm-1).
> 
> Please send me information about materials, literature and/or companies
> who trade with optical filters in that region.
AMKO have a very comprehensive range of cutoff filters. Do you need their
address?
Regards,
David Moss

In article , Andrew Holder
 wrote:
> I have no interest whatsoever in SpecTools but I have to say Jeffrey you
> are a very weird case.
> 
> It sounds to me like you are a particularly sad and paranoid individual
> but then that's only my opinion.
I am actually only this way when I'm hit with a high powered sounding "we
are on to you" letter at the end of a particularly rotten afternoon after
having no lunch break and little time for wading through lawyer-speak for
a product that was being given away free and had taken a significant chunk
of my time to get right but was now going to require a recall and another
significant amount of time to purge of all references to what I at first
thought was a rather good sounding name.
> Thank goodness I don't have that sort of a life.
In reality, neither do I.  It only happens to me at work.
-- 
Chemistry Department/Chemical & Materials Engineering Department
Materials Science Building 125, South Loop Road
University of Alabama in Huntsville,  Huntsville, AL    35899
phone:(205)890-6954  fax:(205)890-6349  http://matsci.uah.edu/~weimer/

In article <54r744$gbu@morgoth.sfu.ca>, gay@sfu.ca (Ian Gay) wrote:
> What's not clear is the content of the letter you got from Wiley's lawyers. 
> Why not post it, so we can decide whether Wiley is the kind of company
we want 
> to do business with?
Thanks.  This probably what I should have done in the first place.  I was
a bit too rattled to think straight.
Fax Letter from John Wiley & Sons
**********************************************************************
Dear Dr. Weimer:
I am writing on behalf of Chemical Concepts, which is a subsidiary of John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.  Chemical Concepts is the owner of US trademark
registration No. 1,969,241 for _SpecTool_ in classes 9, 16, & 35, a copy
of which is enclosed [it was NOT enclosed after the fax].  This
registration covers computer programs and other specified goods.
It has come to our attention that you have been promoting a computer
program packaged under the title "SpecTools".  This usage constitutes an
infringement of Chemical Concepts rights in _SpecTool_.
In the circumstances, we request your immediate written confirmation that
you will cease and desist from any further usage of "SpecTools".  In
addition, please provide us with copies of any and all advertising,
promotion, solicitation and other uses of "SpecTool," (sic) and a complete
list of all recipients of such materials.  If you have sold any products
under the "SpecTools" mark, we would require that you send all customers a
corrective letter, in an agreed upon format.
This letter is without prejudice to any of our rights, all of which we
reserve.  We look forward to your response within ten (10) days.
Sincerely, ......
**********************************************************************
I have since talked to the person who has sent the letter.  The problem is
_apparently_ one of a name conflict that can be resolved by just dumping
the old packages and recrafting them under a different name.  I emphasize
apparently, because she has said she has to send my response further up
the line to her client.
Anyway, perhaps I sounded a bit paranoid in my original post.
Here is a shorter version:
Effective immediately, please dump everything associated with the
"SpecTools" packages I have developed for Igor Pro in the trash.  Tell
your friends who have the package to do the same.  I am no longer
supporting this package.  The name conflicts with _SpecTool_, a registered
product from Chemical Concepts under John Wiley & Sons.  I believe I will
have a law suit hanging over me if I continue promoting the files as
"SpecTools" and if I do not tell everyone clearly enough to "cease and
desist" from their further use.
Please get in touch with me if you have any questions.
Thanks.
-- 
Chemistry Department/Chemical & Materials Engineering Department
Materials Science Building 125, South Loop Road
University of Alabama in Huntsville,  Huntsville, AL    35899
phone:(205)890-6954  fax:(205)890-6349  http://matsci.uah.edu/~weimer/

Could someone suggest a proven method for using FT-IR to determine the 
concentration of mineral oil in an oil-in-water emulsion?  The 
concentrations in my particular case will be very low.

Andrew Holder wrote:
> >In article ,
> >"Jeffrey J. Weimer"  writes
> >Routines developed under the name "SpecTools" and distributed by me,
> >Jeffrey J. Weimer, are no longer to be supported under this name. 
 Andrew Holder wrote:
> I have no interest whatsoever in SpecTools but I have to say Jeffrey you
> are a very weird case.
> 
> It sounds to me like you are a particularly sad and paranoid individual
> but then that's only my opinion.
> 
> Thank goodness I don't have that sort of a life.
> 
Dear Mr. Holder,
Mr. Weimer probably does not deserve your ungracious comments.
I suspect Mr. Weimer got a note from a intellectual property attorney
informing him of his presumably inadvertant mistake in choosing the name
"Spectools".
After all, having a big hairy attorney send you a letter citing
infringement is probably an eye opener. Those guys get paid
to scare the dickens out infringers be they accidental or deliberate.
Your judgemental and pointed remarks were way out of line.
Sincerely, -Will Costa
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P. O. Box 400                        Books, and Chemical Information
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538 USA
           phone: 414-563-6449
       fax: 414-563-5964