Re: EU Patent Lobbying Statement

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Robin Turner wrote:

> I think Tim may have a point.  While I agree with Pilch's stand,
> I'm not sure that we should write a proposal as LLG.  As it
> happens, a lot of people in the Lojban community share similar
> ideas on a variety of subjects, but we can't bundle these in with
> Lojban, otherwise we could end up having a language with its own
> built-in ideology ({zo'o} a bit like Esperanto).  Perhaps the
> best thing would be to set up something like "Lojban patents
> working group" or whatever, rather than use LLG itself.

I agree.  And I would rather call it "Logical Language Patent Working
Group", so as to include loglanists, UNLists and others, even people who
don't practise any logical language, as well. 

Unfortunately, it needs to be set up quickly, because the EU patent
organisations will set the course for new legislation at their Paris 
conference one June 24th.

FFII would be happy to provide Internet resources for this group.

-phm http://www.ffii.org/~phm/ tel:49.89.12789608