Matt Giuca <[email protected]> writes: > To put it another way, if the idea can be quickly conveyed in a > meeting with lawyers, then it *is an idea and not an invention* and > should never have been patented. Patents are awarded for inventions, > not ideas -- something the system seems to have forgotten.
That's very succinctly put, Matt. Consider it an idea I will copy :-) I hope you're saying this on the software patent discussion group Ben S. indicated earlier; this kind of thinking sounds like it would be very helpful there. -- \ “I was once walking through the forest alone and a tree fell | `\ right in front of me, and I didn't hear it.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
