From erikjosefsson@usa.net  Thu Aug  2 11:55:05 2001
From: erikjosefsson@usa.net (erik josefsson)
Date: 2 Aug 2001 04:55:05 MDT
Subject: [Patents] law dot com articles
Message-ID: <20010802105505.6368.qmail@nwcst293>

Nick Fleming wrote:
>Im just wondering if anyone else thinks there should be
>some sort of limit on the number of patents a company
>(or group of companies) can file within a specific time
>period ??

That would not be a very systematic way of limiting the scope of the pate=
nt
system, would it?

And while U.S Patent law, despite the Freeman-Walter-Abele test, cannot
produce a systematic limit on what is patentable, there is still hope tha=
t a
return to the classical interpretation of "technical invention" in EPC 52=

would.

//Erik


