From pelegrin@labri.u-bordeaux.fr  Mon May  7 12:56:47 2001
From: pelegrin@labri.u-bordeaux.fr (Francois PELLEGRINI)
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:56:47 +0200
Subject: [Patents] American Inventor Coalition / was Re: Software and
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kodama@netcourrier.com wrote:
> No need to go into the code : the patents are, for most of them, claiming about designs,
> specification. So the cost to study the existing patents is not as enourmous as you may
> say.

Not at all !

Recent experiments have been carried out during a patent attorney
conference.
The same design was expressed in 5 ways, from very formal to very
practical,
and was given to groups of patent experts from 3 regions of the world:
europe,
USA, Japan.
They did not see that it covered the same design, and agreed to patent
some,
while rejecting the others. And it varied according to the geographical
area.

This is a complete mess !


f.p.


