__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:56 \__
>> UK firms contest 'absurd' software patent ruling
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>> | The five companies, Astron Clinica Limited, Cyan Holdings Plc,
>> | Inrotis Technologies Limited, Software 2000 Limited and Surf
>> | Kitchen argue variously that the IPO is stifling British
>> | entrepreneurship, forcing UK firms to apply for patents
>> | outside the UK, and putting British inventors at a disadvantage.
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/29/legal_patent_challenge/
>>
>> The fiends. They want to own some maths.
>
> We britlanders invented gravity, anyone using it must pay us a sub in order
> to continue using it.
>
> Scotland can claim the rights to the television.
>
> Canada has the telephone.
>
> Robert Watt has radar, dam another one goes to Scotland.
>
> The list is endless, but of cause these patent laws only seem to have merit
> if the inventor either is american or no one currently has claimed them,
> then it is first come first served provided you are American.
>
> It's a daft post, but no more daft than the patent laws.
Well, it's a fine post. I didn't realise where you had disappeared. Even went
to the SUSE NG looking for you...
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