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Tim Bray writes: > At 05:34 PM 11/01/01 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > I will just note that exhibiting prior art is not sufficient. > >You also need some legal action to take place before getting a > >patent removed, right ? (I would be soooo happy if I was wrong !) > > If the patent holder chooses to defend it, typical legal costs to > get one stricken down are about a million dollars. -Tim Just so. If I were doing my own startup, I might need to reserve at least USD 1M in cash or credit to fight the inevitable nuisance patents from the US, even though I live in a country that has not (yet) been bullied into recognizing software patents itself. I put a lot of the blame on venture capital firms -- they have intellectual property as an automatic checklist item, so people have to do bogus software patents just to get funding. I very much doubt that the VCs will look at their current crop of dot.complete-disasters and reflect on how little the software patents helped them (I don't think that learning from your mistakes appears on their checklists). All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/
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