From phm@xxx.xxx Thu Dec 2 10:17:52 1999
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 19:17:52 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: EU patent system lobbying next month

On Oct 23 I wrote

> > I will be in Brussels with a multi-company lobby delegation to talk to the
> > people in charge of designing the "EU community patent" next month.

A report of this event can be found under

http://www.eurolinux.org/news/


> > Please see if you can sign the petition and possibly supply a Lojban
> > version
> > 
> > http://swpat.ffii.org/lojban/
> > 
> > That might give me the boost that is necessary for me to be able to bring
> > up the subject of multilinguality and Logical Language. Otherwise we will
> > focus entirely on the threat of software patents.

Due to lack of support from the Lojban community, we did not mention the
case of Lojban. But I raised the issue during an international conference
at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich last month. It was then even
mentioned by the chairman in his final word that "during the coming year
we will have to look at the possibility of introducing a Logical Language
in the European patent system".

I am sure however that this issue will be forgotten, since nobody promotes
it. 

--
phm