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

[Prashant Uchil prashantu@hotmail.com]

public interest litigation or PIL is a novel instrument to fight for the 
cause of a nature which affects a majority of the public and causes  a  
violation of their rights mostly fundamental rights etc;
regards
prashant uchil

>From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
>Reply-To: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
>To: Prashant Uchil <prashantu@hotmail.com>, tom.vogt@ricardo.de, 
>patents@liberte.aful.org
>Subject: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: Patents 
>digest, Vol 1 #162 - 2 msgs
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:51:04 +0100
>
>
> > ...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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