Posts by Don Christie
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That's one of the main problem with the current patent system - it's the death of a 1000 cuts
I'll say. From an economic perspective it could be disastrous for NZ. I see the current status as something similar to trade tariffs. In order to participate in the "global knowledge economies" well will have to pay a tax on our activities to overseas economies, mainly the USA.
This will *always* be a net loss to NZ, we simply cannot keep up or catch up, nor should we try to. Tariffs are usually frowned upon for good reasons, constructing new forms of them is sub-optimal.
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Bart - I kind of draw the line at being able to copyright or patent a genome
Paul - yeah it's a tough one. It gets at the heart of what patents are meant to do
... to allow publication of methods or discoveries so that others can build on them, while allowing the discoverer a period to profit...
which often doesn't seem to be the way it works out.Well, my answer would be to point you to the Gower Report written for the UK treasury and published 2006.
Recommendation 17
Maintain policy of not extending patent rights beyond their present limits within the areas of software, business methods and genes.
The whole 147 pages are not too bad a read if you are into that sort of thing.
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What is this, urology day at PAS?
Bloody hell giso, you're supposed to be an ESOL. Show some common decency and stop showing us up :-)
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Done. Very nice. Thanks.
You know what I said on Emma's thread, I take it back. It was a joke, honest.
Hey, I saw Alan B. at an arty thing the other night. Not why he was there given his obvious preferences for WMCs and the like.
He's taller than I remember, which probably gave him a long reach edge in his fighting days.
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Haven't read the post yet. But I saw who was in the title and chuckled. The anticipation is killing me...
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like working for a booze company, or a PR company or writing speeches for politicians, you really let your self in for that one David :)
When you put it all in in sentence like that ...
I was trying to work out where to fit "repo man" in all that.
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The present Trustees are Don Brash (Chairman)
Good God.
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"Open roads are generally frightening places to even drive through – shades of JFK spring too readily to mind."
ROTFLMFAO
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And then there's a panel on the art market in a recession,
So now would be a good time to plug the NZ Affordable Art Show which has pumped nearly $3 million back to 100s of artists over the last few years.
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"experts can say what they like, but we think they work."
That was pretty much Murray McCully's line to the NZIIA where he announced NZAID's closure. He was pretty disparaging about "unaccountable faceless bureaucrats and development experts".
He also didn't take questions from his audience of overseas and local diplomats, academics and, presumably, development experts. This was rather unusual for speakers to the NZIIA.
He was willing to hold a press conference afterwards. Presumably we can rely on the media to give him their usual insightful and thorough ride.
For some reason he brought Elton John along as well: