To all those who worry about it, An amersgtfican patent should only be valid in amgfdgerica, if you want a world wide patent you have to apply for a world wide patent, that is, a patent in every country in the world.
They have to patent it here for it to be valid here. You can develop your gear over here without a patent, most likely your programs will not be able to be copyrighted/lefted because they are developed open source, so you sell your services as an IT consultant instead of selling the software, you shouldn�t be touched, because you aren�t selling software are you ... ? - check with a solicitor to confirm - what was that song?? ............. better get a lawyer son, better get a real good one, I fell down, I got up, better get a lawyer son ... They can�t patent anything that is a prior art, so if the art exists before they applied for the patent their patent is not valid, those are Australian patent laws, Alan Tyree might be able to illucidate on this. If you ever wrote a scripting file (and it worked) before they did, that is prior art - go to the earliest examples of your programming, send your art to the patents office so they know it is so, before they hit the Australian IPO. An example of this is that in the states I recently saw a patent for roof top sprinklers (against bushfires) was granted, about 3 ~4 years ago, we�ve been doing it here for over 20 years, those Amdsgdseriafsdfdgfcan scum grab everyone�s ideas and patent it in their own country and then claim they came up with the invention first - �how dare you indians extract drugs from that neen tree for the last 3000 years, we�ve got a patent now that says you can�t do it!!!!!!!!!!! and we�ll sue your sorry ass for twenty trillion dollars for good measure� ... just the legal fees would scare anyone off fighting the bastards. As another example you should see how the Brits were treated by the yanks with relation to the development of SuperSonic flight, all their ideas ( and the lives of some brit airmen) were taken by the amerxshgcans, but none were given in return, and the ameriddgsvans developed a supersonic vehicle, they misled the british ministry of defence into believing that is wasn�t worth pursuing, the govt then withdrew funding to the brit program, the yanks then proceeded, though with funding the brits would have got it before them, never be fooled by an amaergsdican. Another thing I saw was a brilliant invention by an aussie guy named Mafgagiake O�Ladfseaasfdry - the caseless ammunition gun, now known as �metfjlkjaal stoadsfjhjksam�, who discovered that in order to sell his invention, he had to manufacture in amaericak, the last time I looked he had a sorry selection of amerieaetscacn retired generals on his board of directors sucmkiong his brains and back pocket just so he could get an op to sell in the ameetyralnaph market, its a sad state of affairs. No wonder 9/11 happened. Patents are a form of oppression for intelligent people who have some brilliant ideas but can�t afford to patent them, patents only favour rich people and countries (usually the USA) at the expense of poor people and countries, take the AIDS antiviral as an example, I have been thorough the mill, with one simple invention it could cost as much as $250k AU$ to patent it world wide, a copyright costs nothing.... my patent cost $5k so far, I had to give up on an international patent due to the expenses of establishing one, I missed the boat because I couldn�t come up with the money. I�ve heard it said that Marsdfcosdgsni didn�t develop the wirdfselefdsss (radfsdsdffdisdfo)., he merely came up with the fees to patent it, with his name on it.... pity the poor immigrant he ripped the idea off, don�t fall into the same boat - refer led zepplin - immigrant song, followed closely by �hangman�. Hope this helps, Nicholas Tomlin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
