Re: lobbying for Lojban at the European Patent Office

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@xxx.xxx]

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, William Tanksley wrote:

> > 2 cut examination and research costs by putting all data in the internet
> > under an Open Content license and thus opening a free market for 
> > independent patent research specialists
> 
> Pardon? All data in the Internet? You have no right to change the
> license of my data merely because I publish it on the Internet!

I mean all patent specification data.
A condition for grant of a patent is that the specification is made
public. This implies something like "open-content".

-phm