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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 06:28 PM EDT |
> the problem only has this magnitude and severity in the US,
for now.
There, fixed that for you. The rest of the world is in dread disarray as it
scrambles to persuade its respective governments not to accept the
trojan US export of the problem via WIPO, ACTA, TRPP, &c. The respective
governments are only politicians who look to their own benefits in
maintaining a good relationship with the US...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 07:20 PM EDT |
Much as I wish we could ignore the US madness (software isn't patentable in New
Zealand where I live) the fact that we have a global economy makes this
everyone's problem. Almost any software company has an internet presence and
most likely does at least a small amount of business in the US. That makes it
vulnerable to US courts.
In any case US courts are notorious for asserting jurisdiction over the entire
world. In fact there is a nasty catch 22 here. Usually the only way to convince
a US court that it doesn't have jurisdiction is to hire a ridiculously expensive
US lawyer to make that argument. Which means you have to have at least some US
presence to deal with the lawyer. If you ignore the problem you'll get some
absurd default judgement rendered against you. With the world becoming
increasingly global such a judgement can be very problematic even if you have no
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 04:46 AM EDT |
I write a software program here in good old blighty (UK) and it cannot be
patented... yet some jumped up jerk in US can look at my program, suss out what
things in it are covered by existing US patents or even worse, patent things
that are in my program and block me from selling my program into the US...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 08:07 AM EDT |
the "everyone must sue everyone else" cultural phenomenon which
also is largely US-only.
Unfortunately that is crossing the pond
and is now causing my motor insurance premiums to be ridiculously high because
(a) someone might sue; and (b) people are already suing - those "no-win, no-fee"
practitioners of law who say "it won't cost you a penny" are lying: insurance
premiums of EVERYONE (including those who "win") are going up to cover the costs
of those cases (which means that although I'm not involved, I've had to pay!)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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