[Gllug] Software patents

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 23 Apr Richard Jones wrote:
> First you write your patent in a standard format, post it to the
> patent office, and subject to the most cursory of checks they give it
> a patent number. Then, up to a year later, you send your "claims". The
> claims are what makes the patent, and those are what matter in court.

And you can keep the patent open for ages and ages if you wish, adding
more and more of other people's ideas all the while.

A very odd system - patents do seem destined for the dustbin of history
eventually.

> Rich (who has written two software patents ... blacklist me!)

*plonk*

:)

d.

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