X-Sympa-To: patents@aful.org
Return-Path: <gerald@sedrati-dinet.net>
X-Original-To: patents@aful.org
Delivered-To: patents@aful.org
Received: from kellthuzad.dmz.nerim.net (smtp-dmz-233-wednesday.dmz.nerim.net [195.5.254.233])
	by perennite.aful.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A275AE51D
	for <patents@aful.org>; Wed,  1 Nov 2006 20:15:38 +0100 (CET)
Received: from kraid.nerim.net (smtp-103-wednesday.nerim.net [62.4.16.103])
	by kellthuzad.dmz.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892723A307
	for <patents@aful.org>; Wed,  1 Nov 2006 20:15:29 +0100 (CET)
Received: from karl.sedrati-dinet.net (kerouac.sedrati-dinet.net [80.65.227.197])
	by kraid.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4E440F09;
	Wed,  1 Nov 2006 20:15:34 +0100 (CET)
Received: from localhost.nerim.net ([127.0.0.1] ident=gibus)
	by karl.sedrati-dinet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.61)
	(envelope-from <gerald@sedrati-dinet.net>)
	id 1GfLYe-0001aq-Ep; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:15:28 +0100
Message-ID: <4548F248.6050000@sedrati-dinet.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:15:20 +0100
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22G=E9rald_S=E9drati-Dinet_=28gibus=29=22?= <gerald@sedrati-dinet.net>
User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060228)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
Cc: patents@aful.org
Subject: Re: [Patents] Gregnews rants against NYT "anti-business patents editorial"
References: <20061101182226.GB11206@a2e.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061101182226.GB11206@a2e.de>
X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Validation-by: gerald@sedrati-dinet.net

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> GregNews slams an "Anti-Business Patent Editorial" of the New York Times, with
> the usual claims about how "unscientific" any attempt to limit patentability is.
> 
> I leave out the GregNews rants and just quote some of the quotes from NYT:
> 
> [...rant...]
> 
>     "The broken American system has a knack for sanctioning the
>     ridiculous.  In the latest example, businesses are receiving
>     patents for devising ways to obey the law - the code, to be
>     more specific.  What's next, a patented murder defense?"
> 
> [...rant...]
> 
>     "Once the Patent and Trademark Office has granted one of these
>     patents, everyone who used the same legal shelter - even if
>     they drew the conclusion based on their own interpretation of
>     the tax code - would be subject to lawsuits and even injunctions
>     against using the method."
> 
> [...rant...]
> 
>     "Tax-strategy patents, they argue [supporters of such patents],
>     are more geared toward the complicated tax returns of rich
>     people." and "The easy stuff [obvious methods] should be 
>     rejected under the usual standard that requires patents to be
>     novel and not obvious."
> 
> [...rant...]
> 
> I can't find anything like this on
> 
>   http://press.ffii.org/Software_patent_news

I've done it last week in French on http://wiki.fii.org/SwpatcninoFr
which list an International Herald Tribune article about those "tax
strategy patents", and some comments on
http://wiki.ffii.org/TaxStrategyPatentsFr and
http://www.ffii.fr/Brevets-sur-les-strategies-fiscales

- --
Grald Sdrati-Dinet (Gibus)
gerald@sedrati-dinet.net  http://gerald.sedrati-dinet.net/
Non aux brevets logiciels http://www.ffii.fr/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFFSPJF8914Z7pT+T8RAmr2AJ9tTVb2H4yTWyCpfgj7BauyTMbsAgCfQ5C8
NH1xX9cNi8CbvNAEmhIJp9M=
=ZZPo
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
