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In article <10hc8gtmrsu9k3d@corp.supernews.com>, <telford@xenon.triode.net.au> wrote:
>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.

Well, I have to agree with the last.  But I don't see us getting one 
with Mark "Rusty" Latham -- he sounds too much like a cross between a 
real estate agent and a used car salesman for mine, with a bias  
towards the car dealer.

>>>     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.

Whatever faults Howard has, what you say there is crap.

Cheers, Phred.

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