Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: lou@vaxsc Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: More about the patent treaty ( forwarded message from gnulists ) Message-ID: <49021@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 27 Mar 91 13:48:27 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 41 In article Jim Shaffer writes: >In article <48518@nigel.ee.udel.edu> @utrcgw.utc.com:mark@ardnt1 (mark) writes: >> >>Currently, the US Patent Office is supposed to reject patent >>applications for an idea that is an obvious combination of several >>well-known ideas--a "mosaic of references" to prior art. Article 11 >>explicitly forbids rejection using this criterion. This would cause >>an upsurge in the number of absurd patents, not just in software but >>in every field. Large companies would be most able to take advantage >>of the new rules, further increasing their power over small >>competitors. >> >>(You would generally expect negotiators to aim for a treaty that >>requires little change in their own country's system. However, the US >>negotiators pushed strongly for this part of Article 11. They thus >>attempt to push through a change in the laws of their own country, >>bypassing the usual legislative system. > >Wonderful. > >I used to laugh at the conspiracy theorists who said that the "New World >Order" was going to be fascist. But now I'm not so sure. (This isn't the >only reason, of course.) You mean it's not already? ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Lou Williams Via Bitnet : william8@niehs.bitnet Via Internet: lou@vaxsc.niehs.nih.gov Computer Sciences Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Sometimes in order to feel better about yourself, you have to make others feel bad, and I'm tired of making others feel good about themselves. -Homer Simpson. ---------------------------------------------------------------- All opinions are only mine, and anything that makes sense is just an accident. (sorry, I'm a little cynical due to lack of tact I've found on this newsgroup).