[Patents] satellite tech -iridium network

[Prashant Uchil prashantu@hotmail.com]

I wanna know if satellite communications and the subsequent access of data  
and its flow through the satellite network  has been patented as suggested 
in some reports of patent offices  .
I believe they should not be as it would jeopardise freedom on the net  to 
access data reliably ,as stupid /silly logical ways of flow of data across 
networks (including satellite and land networks)has been allegedly patented 
by some greedy companies?
Does this mean that tomorrow if I need to send data across the Iridium 
network I cant do so  as this logical process has been patented by some 
stupid,greedy company ?
whaty can we do about this?
Anyone interested in Iridium and its potential can contact me(got great 
plans ahead)!
Prashant Uchil
Mumbai
India


>From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
>To: Steve Probert <steve.probert@patent.gov.uk>
>CC: patents@liberte.aful.org
>Subject: Re: [Patents] swedish discussions?
>Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 18:33:36 +0100 (CET)
>
> > >We should organise something ourselves, perhaps together with the
> > >governments.
>
> > In the UK, the Patent Office is part of the Government.  In
> > particular, it is that part of the Government that has been charged,
> > by Government Ministers, with the responsibility for conducting this
> > consultation exercise.
>
>So we should in other countries insist that ministeries with a more
>general interest, such as the ministery of economics, are charged with
>this exercise.
>
>Yet I find that the UK Patent Office is doing a significantly better job
>at presenting the matter and asking specific questions than the GD for the
>Internal Market.
>
>-phm
>
>
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