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- From: ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es (Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez)
- Subject: [Patents] Man Patents the Wheel
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:43:22 +0200
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
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