[Patents] My personal opinion.

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

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:52:55PM -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> Ramon writes:
> >I think that the incentive of the monopoly should be balanced with the
> >research work behind it.
> 
> That is probably as difficult and subjective to determine as obviousness.

At this moment, it was not my intention to suggest a statutory
requirement, but rather what the spirit of the law should be.  On the
other hand, a requirement of a reasonable work behind is not perfect.
However, it is impossible that it is worse that the present situation.

I would find strange that a researcher does not have to write an
annual report to the institution where he works. So having to write a
similar report of obtaining a patent would not be a big overhead.

Ramon