Re: [d@DCC] Microsoft claims to own IP in 130 key Internet protocols

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: General Copyright Discussions <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:32:59 -0500 (EST)
References: <459F05C5CBAB824BB3DD965CC92BBFEA049F09F2@swan.spectrumsignal.com> <c8d15376041108132349964524@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Joe McGuire wrote:

> OUCH.
> 
> If this actually has any teeth to it, we could be in for some serious
> trouble.

  This is why some of us have been fighting software patents entirely.  
Unlike legitimate inventions there is no way to do adequate
useful,novelty,unobvious searches for software and thus software patents
become a simple case of legal landmines.  The required economic studies to
justify software patents were never done, and this new type of patent was
created by special interest patent offices listening to their "clients"  
who are the patent lawyers of patent filers.

-- 
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
 Code is Law: how software code regulates the activities of citizens,
 and acts similar to law.  How do we ensure transparency/accountability?  
 http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/life-of-hacker.html#code=law
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