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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Some 1987 patents of interest
Message-ID: <18414@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Oct 88 19:31:51 GMT
References: <5511@hoptoad.uucp> <16406@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <352@laic.UUCP> <1663@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1988Oct6.181909.901@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <>henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1663@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
>>	I suppose that if the patent laws
>>	enforced some concept of fair use such that people were guaranteed
>>	to be able to license a particular patent at a government established
>>	rate...
>
>While I tend to agree that mandatory licensing would be a good idea, I
>think it's a mistake to create a government bureaucracy to set the rates.
>In an ideal world that might work well; in this one it won't.  There's
>got to be a better way.

There are several countries that have this kind of policy:e.g. Korea & Brazil.
If you want to patent something there, you are required to license it at some
low price that the govt. sets. Needless to say, there are a lot of companies
that won't file patents in those countries because it is tantamount to giving
them away. Now you know why Brazil produces some many illegal clones.

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