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

[Prashant Uchil prashantu@hotmail.com]

yes.,
you are right bernard,
pil is at present specifically indian
but similar movements can be initiated in countries like the u.s and also in 
world forums and international courts as also in geneva and the hague near 
paris.
regards
prashant uchil

>From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
>Reply-To: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
>To: Prashant Uchil <prashantu@hotmail.com>, Bernard.Lang@inria.fr,        
>tom.vogt@ricardo.de, patents@liberte.aful.org
>Subject: Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: 
>Patents digest, Vol 1 #162 - 2 msgs
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:03:29 +0100
>
>On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:52:46AM -0800, Prashant Uchil wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
>is that specifically Indian ...
>
>
>BTW I think INdia is one of the countries that suffers most of the
>patent system. You spend a lot of money on a good education system,
>and then your best technical people are hired in the US... where the
>contribute to the US patent pool, which does not benefit India.
>
>If brain products can be chained, then brains should be too,
>i.e. people.
>   Of course I am not in favor of the latter.
>   But a country has to have logic.
>
>Besides, patents are nothing but corporate protectionnism. Considering
>that now, barriers between corporations are a lot stronger and more
>harmful than barriers between coutries, the question can be raised
>whetehr all this is compatible with the liberal economy everyone is
>preaching for, supposedly to speed up growth and development.
>
>
>Bernard
>
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