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From: Alex Macfie <alex@cgce.net>
To: patents@aful.org
Subject: Re: [Patents] Upton Sinclair 1906
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 15:45:37 +0100

At 23:45 04/04/03 +0200, PILCH Hartmut wrote:

I just ran across the following quote:

  "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
   depends on his not understanding it."
   (Upton Sinclair, 1906)

It's a nice way to express the difficulties encountered by certain
professions in understanding Art 52 EPC.

Who is Upton Sinclair ?

Rather, who was he. Upton Sinclair, 1878-1968, was an American author and socialist.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jupton.htm

Alex Macfie                                     www.cgce.net   alex@cgce.net
         Trewarren, Llanddewi Rhydderch, Abergavenny, Gwent NP7 9UT
     "The exclusive right to invention [is] given not of natural right,
            but for the benefit of society." -- Thomas Jefferson

Upton Sinclair 1906, PILCH Hartmut
- Re: [Patents] Upton Sinclair 1906, Alex Macfie

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