Intellectual Property Magazine
A race without end?
Neil Thomson considers if the UPC will ever pass the finishing line
Neil Thomson, Boult Wade Tennant
Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea is known for his paradoxes. The most familiar is Achilles and the tortoise which argues that
motion is an illusion. According to Zeno, the fast-running Achilles can never catch up with the slow-crawling tortoise in
a race – by the time Achilles reaches the point where the tortoise was, the tortoise has moved on. The distance between the
two may decrease, but Achilles will never close the gap completely.