Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 15th May 2004 08:23 UTC
It is when I read articles like this that I have "my blood all going up to my head" (that's a Greek saying for people that get angry). So apparently, Apple is trying to patent "transparent windows that do a certain action after fading away". While I don't personally find this "innovation/invention" patentable, it's fine with me: Apple is doing the best it can to secure its business (maybe I would do the same if I had shareholders on my back).
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Eugenia, good that you mentioned Miguel - but there is also the another point of this contrast between USA/UE and the rest. The thing is that USA government and also big companies try to impose the US way of understanding patents abroad via international treaties or direct intervention, so sometimes it happens that US law seems somehow valid in the other country. We've seen that in Poland between IBM and Polish patent office, fortunately then the office resisted AFAIR. Well, now we are kicking another bucket after joining the UE...