[TAG] Some patent absurdities

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

One friend (Rahul Basu) forwarded a link to the Alcatel-Lucent MP3
patent story and I found a blog that seems to have figured out whats
going on:
	http://www.edn.com/blog/1690000169/post/1200007120.html
Now it's clear to most of us that software patents are absurd and
this story is a consequence of that absurdity.

... but (in the USA) you seem to have got an ever expanding patent
regime. Another friend (Rahul Siddharthan) forwarded this blog:

http://ataxingmatter.blogs.com/tax/2006/10/tax_patents_a_w.html

Today the USA, tomorrow the rest of the world.[*]

Einstein in the patent office was *not* a mistake. We will need
Einsteins in the patent office soon.

Q: Do you think Bekham and Roberto Carlos can patent their free-kick
techniques?

They do make money based on these techniques and they can probably
teach these techniques to others (for a fee!).

Regards,

Kapil.
[*] For example, there have been repeated attempts to change the
patent law in India at the behest of the multi-national pharma
companies.
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