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- From: dreitman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Daniel R. Reitman, Attorney to Be)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.lawsch-l
- Subject: Re: Patent System Caused L.A. Riots?
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 11:36 PST
- Organization: University of Oregon
- Lines: 22
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- Message-ID: <28DEC199211361019@oregon.uoregon.edu>
- References: <BzqEv2.KGM@world.std.com>
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- Summary: U.S. patent system linked to L.A. riots by Japanese analysts
- Keywords: patent riot Japan
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- In article <BzqEv2.KGM@world.std.com>,
- larry@world.std.com (Larry Appleman) writes...
- >Japanese news analysts propose that last May's riots in Los Angeles
- >were caused by the U.S. patent system.
- >
- >During a recent visit to Japan, a delegation from the Japan-U.S. Study
- >Group of the American Intellectual Property Law Association was told
- >that a Japanese television program "created the link that the U.S.
- >patent system was the reason for the riots in Los Angeles," according
- >to Charles Berman, head of the delegation, as quoted in the National
- >Law Journal, Nov. 30, 1992, at page 3,
- >
- >The National Law Journal article reports that Charles Berman said, "We
- >were told that the Japanese recently put a program on TV showing the
- >flames of L.A. burning in the background, saying that was caused by
- >the U.S. jury system that is 'destroying U.S. law' and is being used
- >against companies in patent litigation."
-
- Well, either somebody's research was more than a little hurried, or we've just
- gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
- Daniel Reitman
-