From phm@a2e.de  Fri Jul 13 07:12:48 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:12:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Re: [FYI] BMWi Workshop on SWPAT
In-Reply-To: <0.700002152.330803997-738719082-994984858@topica.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107130810530.957-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 PASIJA@cs.com wrote:

> > You no longer know whether you have the right to use the software you wrote.
>
> You seldom have the right to use what you invented. Best you can do is top
> others from using, making, selling and importing it. This is so because most
> inventions are improvements over unexpired patents of others.

How true!
That's a reason why many software authors and companies are keen not
to have their computer programs treated as "inventions".

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Hartmut Pilch                                           http://phm.ffii.org/
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