On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:22:58AM +0200, Nicolai Tufar wrote: > Greetings, > > Patents do not transcend international border. They need > to be applied for in each country separately. > > To ease the process of applying for patents in many countries > at once Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) was formed. When you
It's also true that many countried have bilateral treatings respecting the "intellectual property" in the other country. Canada has such with the US, as far as I know, so that it is possible to request injunctive relief in Canada for violation of a patent which is grated by the USPTO. The relief is limited, however, and requires certain hoop-jumping which is sort of tiresome. Unless, of course, you have a large, full time legal staff and you're already a multinational. A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] The plural of anecdote is not data. --Roger Brinner ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly