EU Patent Lobbying Statement

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jorge J. Llambías wrote:

> It took me about an hour to translate the first paragraph
> so it may take a while to do it all.

Great, thank you very much.

One other thing to be done is: draft (in English first) a public letter of
the Lojban organisation on the issue of the EU greenbook on community
patents, propose the 3-4 measures, in short

- oppose patentability of non-industrial ideas in general and as
  a possible threat to the Lojban project in particular  
- reduce patent research costs by providing patent specs as open content
  of a high abstraction level.  "publishing patent specs" today must 
  mean "publishing at the highest accessibility/abstraction level"
- right of EU citiziens to be informed in their language about
  what they are allowed to do and what not
- possibly reduce translation costs by providing a Logical Language
  version, from which "Logician's Portuguese" etc may be generated 
- make automated patent research even more efficient by providing 
  patent specs at a highest markup level, i.e. Logical Language.
  Lojban is a higher level SGML, as the parellelity between the two
  reference parsers shows.

I could help drafting this.  We could also create a webserver
lojban.eurolinux.org, to which everybody has access.

Remember that "linux" in "eurolinux" was merely chosen because it is the
most popular and therefore most powerful symbol for "free informational
infrastructure".  The latter term, which is the real issue, means less
than the penguin to many people.  The members need not support Linux as a
platform.  We are integrating people from OS/2 and commercial multimedia
manufacturers as well.

-- 
Hartmut Pilch