From ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es  Tue Jul  3 11:43:22 2001
From: ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es (Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez)
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:43:22 +0200
Subject: [Patents] Man Patents the Wheel
In-Reply-To: <3B410F1A.5638CAA8@realmeasures.dyndns.org>; from seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:17:30PM -0400
References: <3B410F1A.5638CAA8@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <20010703124322.A14219@jl1.quim.ucm.es>

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:17:30PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote:
> 
> Excerpt:

> "The patent office would be required to issue a patent for anything," he
> said. "All they're doing is putting a rubber stamp on it.
> 
> "The impetus came from the Federal Government. Their constituents
> claimed the cost of obtaining a patent was too high so the government
> decided to find a way to issue a patent more easily."
> 
> He said the name should be changed to "Registered Innovation", to avoid
> confusion with standard patents, which grant broad monopoly rights.

Maybe it is not a bad idea. At least it does not discrimitate against
small programmers, who can obtain plenty of these "patents" for
defensive purpososes.

Ramon


