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In article <1992Mar3.160228.12779@nntp.hut.fi>, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
|> In article <kr5m6jINN643@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, chased@rbbb (David Chase) writes:
|> >Unless the (international) patent law has changed recently, it's too
|> >late already.  The US has a one year grace period, but many other
|> >countries do not.  (But you mentioned a GATT treaty -- is a uniform
|> >grace period part of the changes?)
|> 
|> Do any other countries besides US and UK accept or support software
|> patents?  I know that in Finland patents for software are not granted
|> and many countries in the international WIPO patent harmonization
|> negotiations have opposed the stand U.S. is taking that patents should
|> be allowed "on all fields of technology".

Better warn your legislators -- it seems that the US people, failing to
get the language inserted into patent treaties, have managed to get it
inserted into the GATT treaty instead.  For all I know, countries might
be suckered into inadvertantly adopting it and changing their patent laws.

I have not seen the GATT language, though the phrase "on all fields of
technology" rings a bell, so I don't know what is in the official draft
at this time.

-- 
Joe Buck	jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu