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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: <ilya@theIlya.com>
- Cc: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>, <patents@aful.org>, DMCA_discuss <dmca_discuss@lists.microshaft.org>
- Subject: Re: Patents Hurt (or help?) was: [IT World Feature: Patently ridiculous: What's Europe to do?]
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:38:10 +0200 (CEST)
> 1. Patent, by definition is limitation on R&D.
Patents limit commercial exploitation of R&D, not R&D itself.
> 2. Patent, as was shown, is not required to commence R&D.
True, although you mainly showed that copyright was not required to
commence R&D.
> ergo:
> Patent slows down R&D.
Even assuming that assertion 1 was true, I don't understand how you can
infer this "ergo".
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Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-12789608
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- Re: Patents Hurt (or help?) was: [IT World Feature: Patently ridiculous: What's Europe to do?], PILCH Hartmut
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