__/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 17 August 2006 11:05 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Patent review goes Wiki
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>> | The problem: an epidemic of shoddy patents.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
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> I hate this business where you can look around you find something that no
> one has yet patented and then claim it for yourself. It is plain wrong in
> my book, stealing in fact.
Many of these 'tricks' will fortunately not be honoured. One of the merits of
the documentation and discussions in Groklaw, for example, is that you get a
trail of UNIX methods. Patent trolls will not stand a chance of pulling a
fast one in an age of Google and some darn good indexing of information
(words and patterns rather).
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