NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/misc/legal/21714

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Wilson)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,misc.legal.computing,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Patent System Caused L.A. Riots?
Keywords: patent riot Japan
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Date: 24 Dec 92 03:45:14 GMT
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Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (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."

Somebody at the Law Journal has a reading comprehension problem.

In this statement the Japanese gentleman is saying that both problems
have a common root, an out of control legal system.

He did not say that the patent system caused the riots.

Maybe the writer just hoped to make the Japanese look stupid.

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