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- From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
- Subject: [Patents] Re: Melbourne man patents the wheel
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:18:22 +0200 (CEST)
> "Melbourne man patents the wheel"... as a
> "circular transportation facilitation device". 8^)
Actually Australia may be moving in the right direction, into which France
already went a few years ago.
It is normal that patent lawyers don't like it and file ridiculous patents
in order to arouse a backlash based on misunderstandings.
The ffii law initiative no 5 also suggests to replace the examination
system with a registration system, of course alongside with some
incentives for others to invalidate the patent. Such incentives of course
would make it very expensive for someone to patent the wheel.
--
Hartmut Pilch http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
80000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
- [Patents] Re: Melbourne man patents the wheel, PILCH Hartmut
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