Petition against M$-Novell Patent Agreement

Laszlo Pandy laszlok2 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 02:14:06 UTC 2006


Alan Pater wrote:
> Anyone know what the status of software patents in Canada is?
> Could MS Canada sue each and every one of us?
> 

I asked (the brilliant) Michael Geist (http://michaelgeist.ca/) the same 
question about a year ago and I believe he said it was similar to 
software patents in the EU, and that there were also some talk about 
changing to a US style system. Because of the fall of the liberal 
government I don't think anything happened. AFAIK nothing has changed 
since then.

So no I don't think they could sue anyone in Canada, but IANAL.

Laszlo




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