Re: EU patent system lobbying next month

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 07:17 PM 12/2/99 +0100, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
>From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
>
>Due to lack of support from the Lojban community, we did not mention the
>case of Lojban.  But I raised the issue during an international conference
>at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich last month.  It was then even
>mentioned by the chairman in his final word that "during the coming year
>we will have to look at the possibility of introducing a Logical Language
>in the European patent system".
>
>I am sure however that this issue will be forgotten, since nobody promotes
>it.

I think the problem is that other than you, rather too few people have any 
idea what is involved, and it seems rather quixotic to "promote it".  Also 
most of us are spare timers, so that "promoting" something, which sounds 
like a big job, is beyond our capabilities.  Signing a petition on patents 
sounded like meaningless support when none of us actually do any work with 
patents; why should they care that a bunch of people that have nothing to 
do with patent law signed the petition.  A couple of lawyers in 
intellectual property would seem more valuable than 100 random 
Lojbanists.  If we misunderstand the politics whereby this is not so, you 
need to communicate better as to how and why we can help.

lojbab

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