[LINK] FTC investigating US patent system

[Robert Hart]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 15:55, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:

> The real shocker is that anyone with a lukewarm IQ could have seen this;
> which leads me to think either that the negotiating bureaucracy was
> incompetent, or that they deliberately misled the politicians.

There is a third possibility - the bureaucrats told the government that
there were problems - and the govt decided to ignore their advice as the
FTA was seen as 'politically positive' in an election year (and damn the
long term consequences)...


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