[Patents] Re: [Patents] Patent problem

[Juhana Sadeharju kouhia@nic.funet.fi]

Bernard.Lang@inria.fr wrote:
>Publishing on the web is enough to protect an idea against patenting
>provided you can prove that it was published there.

Thank you for the info.

I got a notice that the feature can be used if it can be proven that
the feature was used (invented?) before the patent's date. I also have
found two persons who indeed used the feature earlier but changes
might be that those programs are lost nowadays.

>We are not just raving here ... many are building up ways of actively
>fighting software patenting. There is political action even if it does
>not always show on the list.

Software patents are okay, but it is really bad that young computer
nerds, who yet don't understand the nature of patents, ought to be
prepared for a law suit because a company patents the supposed
well-known, too simple idea later.

Many patented invents are so simple that it would be a good to have
patents for from 1 year to 17 (whatever it is) years. And 10+ years
seems to be too much because of the rapid development nowadays.

Juhana