From epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk  Sat Apr 28 11:07:01 2001
From: epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk (Edward Avis)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:07:01 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Patents] Re: Copyright strength
In-Reply-To: <20010428100302.14F6C10499@stabilite.aful.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0104281105220.3519-100000@pub.doc.ic.ac.uk>

>From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>

>Subject: Re: [Patents] Re: World Intellectual Property Day is April 26,

>One of the reasons why the number of software patent filings is rising
>so much in both America and Europe over the last decade is the
>recognition that copyright is increasingly useless for protecting, in
>a controlling manner, software.  Classic big cases, such as Lotus and
>Apple, copyright for software suffered greatly.

Do you believe that it would be in America's economic interest if
copyright law allowed Apple and Lotus to win these cases?

-- 
Ed Avis
epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk



