On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote: > (And this still applies just as much to software licenses. It is > *hard* to gain a copyright license; you have to create the work. To > gain a software patent, you merely have to describe the general method > by which you could create it. I find it highly unlikely that patent > lawyers cost appreciably more than software developers)
I'm a software developer. So the services of one may, under some circumstances, cost me nothing at all (except my spare time). I don't think patent lawyers can get cheaper than this.
