Patents [OT] (Was: RE: [Flightgear-devel] XML SCripting)

2004-02-16 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Mally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 February 2004 7:12 pm To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML SCripting You may not be a patent lawyer, but that's a convincing sounding explanation of the legal position.

Re: Patents [OT] (Was: RE: [Flightgear-devel] XML SCripting)

2004-02-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Richard Bytheway wrote: There was a comment on the /. discussion on this subject that the examiners have a quota of patents applications to process each week, so there is little incentive to dig too deep. I hope this is not the case, but it might be. Ok. But since the patent request was filed

Re: Patents [OT] (Was: RE: [Flightgear-devel] XML SCripting)

2004-02-16 Thread Mally
Richard Thanks for that. (Puts a new twist on the phrase patently obvious) :-( Mally - Original Message - From: Richard Bytheway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 9:11 AM Subject: Patents [OT] (Was: RE: [Flightgear