Re: lobbying for Lojban at the European Patent Office

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

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