- From: Les Barstow <lbarstow@vr1.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:36:20 -0600
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Rik van Riel wrote: > So if I hit your car in France, you may sue me in Norway, > where neither of us has ever been and which doesn't have > anything to do with the incident ? Under the Hague treaty, if a law allowing third parties to sue for car crashes was included as part of the treaty, then yes. Though Pascal's example wasn't third-party. Scary that politicians and diplomats who should know better allow these kinds of unintended consequences to make it into a binding international treaty. -- Les Barstow | e-mail: lbarstow@vr1.com System Administrator | VR1, Inc. | http://www.vr1.com | Disclaimer: All your server are belong to us!
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