Re: EU Patent Lobbying Statement

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@xxx.xxx]

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:

> This is the type of effort in which playing the game incorrectly may be
> more harmful than not playing at all.

I would then suggest that only interested people start playing the game,
creating the 

Association for Language-Independent Accessibility of Public Information
http://eurolinux.ffii.org/lojban/

as a base.

This can be pursued independently and for the time being it could even run
as a workgroup of FFII or be registered in a EU country, if legal status
is needed.

FFII has tax-exempt charity status, and it won't be difficult for me to
justify this workgroup with the tax authorities. Currently there is a
discussion between members as to whether "language-independent
accessibility" is an achievable goal. 

How would you see this? Is the claim too ambitious? 

Can a loglang original be expected to be translatable into useful natlang
patent specifications some time in the not-very-far future?

To what degree can loglang parsability make texts more accessible to
patent search and content analysis programming?

-phm