[Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: Patents digest, Vol 1 #162 - 2 msgs

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

> ...to file a public interest litigation

what is it ?


BL


On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:01:38AM -0800, Prashant Uchil wrote:
> Dear friends,
> can you guide me to obtaining specifications submitted to patent office for 
> patenting a  process patent and process enabling softwae patent in the 
> internet /networking field.ie; basically a copy of any such patents granted 
> /filed  with their claims as well as the complete set of documents 
> submitted 
> to the patent office including specifications and operational mechanics of 
> the processes/software claimed.
> I am Prashant Uchil in India Bombay and would like tounderstand and study 
> these papers to basically do the ground work to oppose them
> and also to file a public interest litigation(i am very active in 
> litigation 
> works)
> regards
> prashant uchil
> bombay
> india
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Tom Vogt <tom.vogt@ricardo.de>
> >To: patents@liberte.aful.org
> >Subject: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: Patents digest, Vol 1 #162 - 2 msgs
> >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:27:53 +0100
> >
> > > Even software patent advocates must recognize this problem.  In fact, 
> >imho
> > > the above statement from Mr Bezos is the only one in his letter that I 
> >can
> > > really subscribe to and recommend as a progress.  The conclusions he 
> >draws
> > > (like limiting the duration of software patents), are of course neither
> > > practicable nor really justified, as you point out correctly.  The only
> > > solution to the patent crisis that I see is:  take software and business
> > > methods out of the patent system and, if necessary, design sui generis
> > > systems for them.
> >
> >I don't think that will solve the problem, not as long as lawyers are
> >involved.
> >
> >for example, the software patent I currently oppose (7val's Location
> >Poisoning, see my website at http://www.lemuria.org/Software/unpoison)
> >is being submitted for patent even though software patents are illegal
> >in europe.
> >the submission thus simply reads "a process for...", and I'm willing to
> >be a years wage that it does a great job at obfuscating the fact that
> >what they want to patent is a trivial piece of software that, for
> >example, took me all of 9 lines of code(!) to duplicate.
> >
> >
> >personally, I would propose a more radical change to the patent (and
> >related) system(s): make intellectual property rights available only to
> >entities that do have an intellect. namely: humans. a company cannot be
> >creative, so it shouldn't be capable of holding copyrights.
> >
> >
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