On 3/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jens M Andreasen</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jens.andreasen@comhem.se">jens.andreasen@comhem.se</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 17:09 +0100, Lars Luthman wrote:<br><br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; Prior art doesn&#39;t exempt the first implementor, it invalidates the<br>&gt; &gt; patent, at least in the US.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; And everywhere else, I hope. Anything other than that would be insane.
<br>&gt;<br>&gt; (regardless of whether the whole concept of patents is insane or not)<br>&gt;<br><br>Suppose the whole concept really is insane, then prior art could be<br>excempted without breaking any sanity rules, yes?
<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Well, in Europe, the concept is already insane. There&#39;s a european patent on the concept of tabs used inside a website... how sane is that ?<br><br>Hopefully, these (software) patents do not have (at present) any legal value in Europe...
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