Ken Foskey wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 12:01, ksaenz wrote: > > I guess now it's upto the opensource community to register patents for > > all new technologies they will develop to stop M$, $CO and others in > > cheating the public. :) > > It is actually expensive to register a patent. It is no longer to > support the innovator. There was a thread on this in > http://yro.slashdot.org and there was some other stuff about appealing a > patent. US $9,000 to get your appeal even reviewed.
I suspect that most of these so called patents might just be rendered invalid by "prior publication". Didn't the US Patent Office grant a patent for the wheel recently (last year)? which is clearly unpatentable. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures <Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing> "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html