From ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es  Thu Jun 14 12:10:44 2001
From: ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es (Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:10:44 +0200
Subject: [Patents] Re: 80,000 signatures for software patent free Europe
In-Reply-To: <03af01c0f471$7297b2c0$a9b0fea9@flint1.mi.home.com>; from rjriley@rjriley.com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:29:20PM -0400
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Message-ID: <20010614131044.A1435@jl1.quim.ucm.es>

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:29:20PM -0400, Ronald J Riley wrote:
> Beyond that, I think that they should stop whining about other people's
> inventions and start inventing their own solutions.

If in order to avoid infringment all I have to do is to spend some
hours designing a better method, the benefit for the patentee is so
small that there is not even incentive for paying the patent fee. So
your statement is obviously false.

Ramon


