On Fri 29.08.2003 at 12:10:34PM +0100, Mark Benson wrote: > > Footnotes: > > [1] Yes, if you want to work 35 hours a week (German: 35 Stunden > > Woche), you may need to pay for this in the future > > > > How in the hell did someone manage to get a patent on working 35 hours a > week?????
They didn't, read my other message about that. > That is truly insane... *Starts work on patenting inhaling air...* Lots of patents are truly insane. > As for patents here in the uk... > > Anything in the public domain prior to patent application is considered fair > game and more or less unpatentable. With the notable exception of companies > with plenty of resources. Actually, a stupid patent cannot stand in a court of justice. The problem is, that if you don't have lots of money, you can't stand long in a court of justice. The big company can, however. So big companies are exchanging patents instead of fighting eachother, and are sueing the small companies until they have no more money (and then rebuy the company for cheap, may be). It already happened that a small company won a patent trial against a big company, but was forced to close anyway, because they put all their money in the trial :( Matthieu -- (~._.~) Matthieu Weber - Universit� de Jyv�skyl� (~._.~) ( ? ) email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ? ) ()- -() public key id : 452AE0AD ()- -() (_)-(_) "Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht (Germain Muller)" (_)-(_) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
