17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
10:27
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-10-17 at 09:46 +0100, William Gallafent wrote: (OT, thus off list)
A proposal exists that "lightweight" patents, with a lower cost, a lower examination threshold and a shorter life, should be introduced, ostensibly in order that more inventors might benefit from protection for their inventions than may under the current system.
I think such a system exists in Australia. There was a report in the IEEE Spectrum magazine. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFNK/9tTMYHG2NR9URAshUAJ9CJWWcnP3JC/fQeOJYMU9TXSZHpQCggaFg 8JfO9AWPT4O6W5td5yKcrY0= =h4xZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----