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To: quartersawyer who wrote (442)	5/25/2005 9:43:35 PM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 666

The link-- Yes I saw that one before. Like this: "From the point of view of the public interest, standards organizations have to compromise between the goal of unimpeded access to the standard and the possibility that “excluding a patented invention from a standard can unreasonably restrain trade by … excluding a technically advanced product from the market”[5]." That's half-baked. More exhaustive treatises than this one are clear that the creation of patentable stuff is very much in the public interest. Making a s**tload of money occasionally drives men to create terrific things for society. Free enterprise, pursuit of wealth, incentive, ambition and all that. If it were all up to self-serving immense entrenched institutions and corporations to gather IPR to trade or distribute among members of standards organizations as they see fit, the public interest would be served badly. I'm pretty good at assessing methods, materials and results in studies in my own fields, and there's plenty of overlap in what you have to bring to bear reading these things. This one is crap.