EM>> Regarding the first one, I divide between patents that STOP EM>> technological advances (like LZW) and patents that HELP EM>> technological advances (like RSA). I don't agree that EVERYTHING
Hm. Only difference I see is that the owner of the RSA was less greedy than owner of the LZW, but that difference does not lie in the field of patents but of owners. EM>> Maybe conflicts between patents and technology advances were caused EM>> because of non-professional staff of the patent office? Asking that, let's ask what kind of "professionality" is required from them? Should they be an experts in software knowing to the least detail every part of every program existing, for example? What would be requirements to professional patent office worker? Note that patent office is not exclusively software - they should also work on other things too. EM>> Maybe a better computerization will help the patent office EM>> reject patents that were "prior art"ed by open technologies? It is pretty hard to know this - for this, detailed analysis of the functions of patented and potentially prior-art (meaning, just almost every other in the field) applications required. I fear for a patent office which is not really overbudgeted it is not actually feasible. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
