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In aus.computers.linux Phred <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <4114a7f4$0$4754$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, _ <_@_._> wrote:
>>
>>FTA section 17.9.14
>>
>>     Each Party shall endeavour to reduce differences in law and practice
>>     between their respective systems, including in respect of

> Fair enough.  But why does this mean we have to accept *their* system?
> If ours is so much better, then why not insist *they* adopt ours?
> Why do the Labor Party flunkies and fellow travellers have so little 
> faith in Australian talent and competence?

Because they have lived under the thumb of John Howard for so long.

Everything John Howard does is designed to generously donate
Australian resources to the USA. He blindly followed the US into
Iraq, he smugly looked the other way when prisoners were being tortured,
and he offers a trade agreement that took less than one day to get better
than a 90% majority as it passed through US Congress. You have to think 
that we could have asked for a bit more when it got through Congress so
easily... would should have asked for a hell of a lot more.

I have plenty of confidence in Australian talent and competence,
but not much confidence in our present government showing any sign
of acting in Australia's interest. Australia is desperately in need
of a real leader.

>>     differences in determining the rights to an invention, the prior art
>>     effect of applications for patents, and the division of an
>>     application containing multiple inventions. In addition, each Party
>>     shall endeavour to participate in international patent harmonisation
>>     efforts, including the WIPO fora addressing reform and development
>>     of the international patent system.

> Anyway, any bureaucrat worth his textra pen knows that "shall 
> endeavour" means nothing need happen before the apocalypse.

Nothing *need* happen, but if Howard gets back in, he *wants* nothing
more than to hand our livelihoods over to US corporations.

	- Tel