Re: The patent process [Was Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending]

[pltrgyst]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 14:26:26 GMT, Just Another Alias <startle348@comcast.net>
wrote:

>.... Because the opportunity
>exists for a temporary monopoly, the patent process CAUSES things to
>be invented that would not have been invented. 

Care to explain that magical process?

Many of the great inventions and discoveries of mankind ocurred nearly
simultaneously in different parts of the world. Many of today's technological
advances are made independently by multiple inventors. It seesm pretty arbitrary
that patent protection is available according to different criteria depending on
where the patent is sought: either first to file, or first to invent.

-- Larry