On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Scott Melton
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> In a free and open society it is easy to find fault in complicated systems,
> just as it is easy to have a bias, pick sides and misrepresent the facts.
> One example in this thread, I may be wrong, but I think there is good reason
> for simplifying the patent granting process from who invented it first(which
> can be very difficult and costly to prove) to who filed first. Is the change
> a choice between the lesser of two weavels? Certainly. Infinitely more
> knowledgeable people than I made the decision. I will side with them until I
> become a patent lawyer or become so well informed that I can pass judgment
> on this complicated system.


Why do you assume the people responsible for our current patent system are
more knowledgeable than you rather than simply more greedy?

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

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