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On Thursday 10 February 2005 17:36, Simon Waters wrote:
Jon Lawrence wrote: | It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone with enough money | made a case against them. What for? There is nothing wrong with having a patent for something that was invented before, you just can't enforce it. If you tried to enforce it, you might open yourself up to being sued for bringing pointless legals actions, but if you never try and enforce it you just have an expensive piece of paper.
Hmmm, I thought it was fraud to Following that logic, it doesn't matter what a patent says. If there's prior art, then the patent is unenforceable. If this is the case, what are we all so bothered about. Who gives a monkey's if someone wants to patent something that's already been done - if they can't enforce the patent then as you say, it's just an expensive piece of paper. If it's a new invention then they can patent it and extract license fees or whatever for using that invention - fair enough, they invented it - whether or not software code can be classed as an invention is another matter. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.