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Re: [LUG] If this wasn't so dangerous, you'd laugh.

 

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.

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