For what it is worth, I hear that the good folks from the US PTO will be
training the Indian Patent officers.
Venky
On 7/29/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 29 Jul 2007 8:30 pm, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
> > Hi Charles,
> >
> > My replies below:
>
> I am just wondering if this entire "intellectual property" hoohah is more
> American, and in fact _recent_American_ rather than "Western"
>
> Knowledge, as in "gyan" - especially in science, and particularly in
> Medicine
> was freely shared in Europe and indeed by the US that took over Europe's
> mantle in many ways.
>
> It is the US of the last 40 years or so, with its patent lawyers, that has
> skewed things in this direction.
>
> I believe that the long arm of the American lawyer, attached to greedy
> ("cotton pickin'?") fingers has brought the world to this pass. American
> lawyers - apart from being involved in this patents galata, are to be
> found
> in strange places - such as a backseat driver standing behind the virtual
> pilot of a pilotless armed Predator unmanned aerial vehicle - to decide
> whether the truck or village party being tracked has Osammy in it, and
> whether it is legal to blast the object into jannat.
>
> shiv
>
>
