Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sean Kellogg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040713 10:55]: > > With great respect to the 95% of the world population that does not live > > within the US... the great majority of the world does operate under laws > > derived from the common law system, which is embodied within the > > restatement > > of law (there is one for each area of law). Even in the civil law > > societies > > (most of continental Europe and Japan) the law has been adopted from the > > United States post World War II, especially in the area of contract law > > where > > global economies have force a homogenization of the law. So while your > > statement is certainly true and should always be remembered... it doesn't > > make the fact that this is the law in most places any less true. > > That's not true. It's just the other way, the Berne Convention is a > typical civil law construct.
Right. And it was the USA that had to adapt its law to conform; everyone else had already done so about 90 years earlier. :) Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/
