[rottweiller_inc]

So, if I happen to aquire the process for creating some new pharmaceutical from "Giant Biotechnicals" system, say from some employee listing a directory it's on as a swapping directory, and then proceed to duplicate it, I'm cool eh?

Lets apply that to the process for turning oil to gasoline and say Arab Oil owns the copyright and establishes a giant monopoly, much like the recording industry

[Axenolith]

Analogising it to turning oil to gasoline is literally like analogising it to evaporating water for the most part. Now, when you get to catalytic cracking or hydrogenation, its another issue, but the patents on those processes are probably long expired.

There was a big suit won by Arco I believe though, for other companies use of their MTBE reformulation...