Patent infringement lawsuit against OLPC in Nigeria

[José Antonio]

There is no "intelectual property".

Patents and copyright are just monopoly granted by state. Period.

As any monopoly, this kind of monopoly cause damages to society.

Why Exxon and At&T can't do monopoly, and Micorsoft and Warner can?

On Nov 27, 2007 5:08 PM, nick knouf <nak44 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Just saw a link to this today, about a patent infringement lawsuit
> filed in Nigeria against OLPC:
>
> http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=796745
>
>  From the article:
>
> 'LANCOR's lawsuit alleges that OLPC purchased two KONYIN Multilingual
> Keyboard models (KONYIN Nigeria Multilingual Keyboard and KONYIN
> United States Multilingual Keyboard) with the express purpose of
> illegally reverse engineering the source codes for use in OLPC's XO
> Laptops. "The willful infringement of our client's intellectual
> property is so blatant and self-evident in the OLPC's XO Laptops,"
> said Solicitor Ade Adedeji, "we will have no problem establishing the
> facts of our client's case against OLPC in any court of law."'
>
> I don't know Nigerian reverse-engineering laws so I don't know if the
> case has any merit, but is there any word about how this will affect
> the XO in Nigeria?
>
> nick
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