Re: USA bombing the world: software patents via GATT?

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 06:15

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In article <1992Mar3.215627.19090@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
|In article <ou8dsINNii9@agate.berkeley.edu>, jbuck@forney (Joe Buck) writes:
|>...ridiculous software patents.  It seems that few are aware of the patent
|>law bomb that the draft GATT treaty contains that forces all its signers
|>to modify their patent laws.
|
>Please, tell us more.  I've been keeping track on the UN WIPO
>negotiations and the local people here did talk about GATT and patents
>but somehow I just assumed it wouldn't matter for the software patent
>question.  Are also other areas like biotechnology (gene patents)
>affected?

My source for this is Richard Stallman.  You'll need to ask him
about where he got the information from.  He's usually very careful
about such things.

--
Joe Buck	jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu

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