Re: lobbying for Lojban at the European Patent Office

[William Tanksley <wtanksle@dolphin.openprojects.net>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 05:37:41PM +0200, PILCH Hartmut wrote:

> I am currently very actively lobbying the EU patent organisations because
> of the imminent danger of patentability of programming concepts (so called
> "software patents").  The EU commission and the Administrative Council of
> European Patent Organisations are trying to pave the way for this by
> modifying the European Patent Convention (EPC).  A working group for this
> is to be nominated on June 24/25 at a conference in Paris.

I'm glad to hear that.  Software and idea patents are a very real danger.

> My lobbying goals are:

> 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!

Hmm...  I'm re-reading that now...  A less offensive wording might have
been "...by publishing all patent data on the Internet under...".  I hope
this is what you meant to say.

> -phm

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