EU patent system lobbying next month

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

I will be in Brussels with a multi-company lobby delegation to talk to the
people in charge of designing the "EU community patent" next month.
 
Please see if you can sign the petition and possibly supply a Lojban
version
 
 	http://swpat.ffii.org/lojban/

That might give me the boost that is necessary for me to be able to bring
up the subject of multilinguality and Logical Language.  Otherwise we will
focus entirely on the threat of software patents.  For that, see

	http://www.freepatents.org

The EU is engaging in a lot of half-baked reforms, and this is a rare
opportunity to bring in some progressive ideas.  The concept of Logical
Language is ideal for the EU patent system, which requires

- logically complicated combinations of simple abstract concepts
- capability to construct huge sentences without creating ambiguity
- multilinguality

This could even create jobs for Lojbanists.

If Lojban is to succeed anywhere, we must act here.

Please sign and also consider coming with us to Brusells.

-phm