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Software Patents in the EU
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Patents |
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2005-03-10 06:38:29 |
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Futal
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Response to: Patents
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The side effect problem is that the patent holder is not even granted the right to use her/his patent, only to exclude other to do so. Then, she/he can only use the patent if it doesn't infringe other patents and to make a software, that doesn't mean to trade for a couple of patents but hundreds of them. I nice barrier not to spend time upon innovation... |