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[Steve Underwood]

Kevin Walsh wrote:

>Steven Critchfield [critch at basesys.com] wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 16:13, Kevin Walsh wrote:
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>>>I don't know what they mean by "counterparts", but I do know that
>>>software patents are not legal in Europe or England.  It's possible for
>>>a few dodgy patents slip past the clerks (they can't all be Einstein),
>>>but there's no way that they could be enforced in the courts over here.
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>>Maybe it did slip past, but can you afford to fight a patent fight
>>against NTT? I doubt you have access to that kind of funds. So right now
>>any unlicensed use even through Europe and the Islands would constitute
>>IP theft. We all know what kind of crazyness surounds that term right now.
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>Of course I have the funds.  I'd turn up in court on the first day,
>state that software and mathematics patents are not legal and the
>case would be closed.  In fact, the case probably wouldn't be heard
>in the first place - the filing clerk would probably laugh NTT out of
>the building.
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If you think that, you clearly have not the slightest clue what is 
involved. The reason really dumb bogus patents are worth getting is 
because it costs far more to shoot down even the dumbest ones than to 
pay off the holder.

Regards,
Steve