I am sure there is a body dealing with Patents in Kenya - at KIRDI, IIRC.


On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 15:56, TheMburu George <themburu@gmail.com> wrote:
I know all that i.e. you cannot patent an idea and the likes but lets not bind our thoughts to that, the whole idea is to protect your main money source lines. I mean apple patented the slide to unlock the phone isn't that a form of claiming ownership. The idea is to accept that soon Kenyans shall be hatching cutting edge ideas as money makers should we be thinking of a way to make them retain their source of money.....

./TheMburu

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:40 AM, James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com> wrote:
And in this part of the world we do not patent software, we only copyright.
The Americans came up with the retarded concept of patenting SW and one of the results, 
is the madness all these companies are displaying





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2011/12/30 James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com>
You DO NOT patent ideas or concepts.
You only patent IMPLEMENTATION!




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2011/12/30 TheMburu George <themburu@gmail.com>
Hey Skunks

Now that all the major players are sueing each other over infringment i.e. apple, samsung, android, Microsoft etc how does one go around patenting ideas/concepts locally. This is given that .ke is fast becoming an innovation hub I'm just wondering is there law/body that can protect the community?

./TheMburu
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