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Nom de Guerre · 10-27-2003, 06:55 AM

here's an idea:

the eu patent would be easier to kick out of the system than the us patent (that's why most europeans are pretty relaxed about this)

why not attack the eu patents first ? it would be invalidated easy, i think..

http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipa...NAV=S#SECTION2

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article 52 of the Convention on patents states that software is not patentable
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wherever the use of a patented technique is needed for a significant purpose such as ensuring conversion of the conventions used in two different computer systems or networks so as to allow communication and exchange of data content between them, such use should not be considered to be a patent infringement
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imagine that all the newsservices was writing articles that acacias eu patent has been invalidated... acacia's stock would drop like a rock, and our friends i the US (plus those that do business there) would have ammunition for the US political system and the press.. think about the money that is at stake for the US tax dept if the eu patent is invalidated - the biggest online industry would move to europe and leave all their business in the us behind... then there would be gigantic pressure on the us courts to throw the patent out.. the system might not like porn, but they LOVE the money..

10-27-2003, 06:55 AM
Nom de Guerre Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: EU Posts: 24	here's an idea: the eu patent would be easier to kick out of the system than the us patent (that's why most europeans are pretty relaxed about this) why not attack the eu patents first ? it would be invalidated easy, i think.. http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipa...NAV=S#SECTION2 quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- article 52 of the Convention on patents states that software is not patentable -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wherever the use of a patented technique is needed for a significant purpose such as ensuring conversion of the conventions used in two different computer systems or networks so as to allow communication and exchange of data content between them, such use should not be considered to be a patent infringement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- imagine that all the newsservices was writing articles that acacias eu patent has been invalidated... acacia's stock would drop like a rock, and our friends i the US (plus those that do business there) would have ammunition for the US political system and the press.. think about the money that is at stake for the US tax dept if the eu patent is invalidated - the biggest online industry would move to europe and leave all their business in the us behind... then there would be gigantic pressure on the us courts to throw the patent out.. the system might not like porn, but they LOVE the money..