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SubjectRe: patents, money, talent, and the GPL
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 01:18:27AM -0500, Rick Hohensee wrote:

> (But as a minor point, I think the US Patent Office feels it's
> credibility eroding, and might be happy to lose software issues.
> But whatever.)

The USPO is protected by law -- they issue patents if you don't like
it, that's tough. You can't attack the USPO only patent holders and
people whom you claim are violating patents.

The USPO doesn't make the law, politicians do -- this is where the
problem needs to be addressed.

However, as we all know, most politicians are pretty dumb, so
explaining abstract concepts to them is doomed to fail and were
pretty much stuffed either way....




-cw

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