[Patents] [napoli@gnacademy.tzo.org: Patent article on Wired]

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

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Something of potential interest:

Net Patent Bill Introduced 
By Kathleen Ellis 
1:50 p.m. Oct. 3, 2000 PDT 
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39238,00.html

Interesting bit from our perspective according to a source quoted
in the article the bill would:

"create the presumption that the computer-assisted implementation
of an analog-world business method is obvious and thus is not patentable."


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