From: Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2005-06-07T00:23:49+09:00
Subject: Re: The WIPO Intellectual Property Forum - defend your right to Ruby.

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 03:15:24AM +0900, Kero wrote:
> > For one, the patents are awarded in certain country. So if you are
> > Japanese, you can get the wheel(!) patented in Japan before a corporation
> > does. But it is independent of the fact that it is already patented in
> > Australia.
> 
> The "wheel patent" in Australia is *not* what you would consider a
> "wheel patent" in USA or Europe. Since it has not been checked by a patent
> officer (reducing costs for inventors??) it does not have the same status as a
> "real patent".
> 
>    http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/07/02/australia.wheel/
> 
> in particular "The name should be changed to "Registered Innovation"
> to avoid confusion with standard patents, Keogh says."

OK, the wheel is some sort of simplified patent.
However, this is not:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6368227.html
in news http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2178

And the webshop showing some "quality" software patents:
http://webshop.ffii.org/

Thanks

Michal Suchanek