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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: pjlahaie_-at-_atlsci.com (Paul J.Y. Lahaie)
Date: 3 Feb 1999 17:00:44 -0500
References: <199902031816.NAA13644@striker.ottawa.on.ca>
russell@flora.ottawa.on.ca wrote:
> It was so much easier speaking to the people in India. They understand
> Intellectual Freedom much better than people here. There are people who
> have been using medical and food-producing knowledge passed down for
> thousands of years that are now being threatened by Bio-Piracy and other
> Intellectual Property based attacks on basic human rights.
One of the things that I oppose in the current patent system is the
patent of already published material (ie. the RSA algorithm, etc..).
This
is completely defeating the purpose of the patent. The idea of the
patent
is to protect a secret that the company gives out. If there is no
"divulging",
then there should be no patent. The US patent system is fairly broken,
but
my understanding of the Canadian patent system indicates it's much
better
structured and that this "Bio-Piracy" would not be possible under
Canadian
patent law.
I might be wrong about the Canadian patent system (since I am going
on
hearsay from a IPsec developper).
- Paul
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