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How about countersuing?

How about countersuing?

Posted Apr 21, 2006 17:05 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: How about countersuing? by jayorke
Parent article: Write Free Software, Pay $203,000 to Patent Holder (Right to Create)

That's covered: obvious to one skilled in the art.

Alas the lawyers have mangled this definition to the point of uselessness in some countries (to such an extent that patent lawyers and not programmers are taken to be the ones skilled in the art with respect to computing patents), and the patent examiners aren't sufficiently skilled.

(IANAL.)


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