[Patents] patent pools enforcing per-copy-licensing mode of software development

[Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 05:35:34PM -0500, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> And for those patents, software or not, that seem trivial and
> obvious, there is often enough prior art to invalidate the patent,
> if given to the patent examiner.

It is a matter of luck if there is prior art to a trivial patent.
Your criterion would invalidate only a fraction of trivial patents,
not all of them. And there is no good reason why a trivial patent
should have been granted.

Ramon