By Marguerite Reardon
Published: Tuesday 21 November 2006
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David Cantrill
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Chicago
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IT
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OK, here's where the rubber hits the road. Why is it that when a big tech company sues another big tech company for intellectual property rights breaches, everyone just says 'Oh yeah, that's fair business.' As soon as it's a government research organisation, they aren't allowed to protect their investments. It's not like CSIRO bought the patent, they went through the proper channels 10 years ago, and now they are asking for what's rightfully theirs.
How can a company hold a patent for something desc...
Anonymous
To Anonymous - it's easy ! All the company has to ...
Simon
OK, here's where the rubber hits the road. Why is...
David Cantrill
CSIRO filed for this patent in 1992 and it was gra...
Anonymous
To anonymous.
you asked "Yet another case of a...
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