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On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 06:29:30PM +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > From: "Ann Navarro" <ann@w...> > > > At 02:03 AM 10/6/2001 -0700, Don Park wrote: > > > How long do you think it takes to do a thorough examination of an IP > > portfolio with tens of thousands of items in it, to be able to declare with > > any kind of competence that there is no conflict that needs to be declared? > > A IPR lawyer told me this week that the going rate for challenging a US > patent is about $100,000. And of course the most well-know the lawyer, the most efficient it is and the most expensive too. Patents have been used by corporate lawyers as long term investment sometimes based on effective in-house research but in a lot of cases on bogus but accepted claims. It's gonna be extremely hard to get them to let this "wealth" go away. > I find it difficult to reconcile talk of freedom and market forces when > the reality seems to be that Western technological dominance is based > on the state granting temporary monopolies. It must be noted that the disease is far more advanced in the USA than other Western countries. Though I agree fully with the statement. I hope Europe will protect itself from the most pernicious part of patenting algorithms. Corporate lobbying seems a bit less effective here than in the US. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/ veillard@r... | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
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