On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Jonathon Blake wrote:
[snip]
One factor to bear in mind:
Every software patent that has ever been issued, hs been issued
despite it being both obvious, and based upon prior art. That prior
art can range from being merely a year old, to being several millenia
old.
[snip]
The USPTO has been particularly bad and granted tens of thousands of sw
patents on material that has been used and taught for decades. That
includes material from computer science text books, established best
practices and even RFCs.
-Lars
Lars Nood�n ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Patents are wrong for software but right for inventions. Write:
http://consultation.ffii.org/Commission_extends_the_consultation_by_12_days
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