[Patents] Software Patents in Europe: a US-minded Policy

[Didier Metzen didier.metzen1@libertysurf.fr]

And what means GII in this extract of Al Gore?

Didier

Jean-Paul Smets a écrit:

> Here is one more document showing evidences of the US involvement into 
> pushing
> Europe to adopt patent legislations on information goods and services.
>
> http://www.iitf.doc.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm
>
> So now, everyone know why the EC green paper on electronic commerce contains
> allegations that software patents are required to promote the development of
> electronic commerce.
>
> JPS.
>
> An except from Al Gore:
> -----------------------
> "To create a reliable environment for electronic commerce, patent agreements
> should:"..."require member countries to provide adequate and effective
> protection for patentable subject matter important to the development and
> success of the GII; and establish international standards for determining 
> the
> validity of a patent claim."
>
> "The United States will pursue these objectives internationally. Officials 
> of
> the European, Japanese, and United States Patent Offices meet, for example, 
> each
> year to foster cooperation on patent-related issues. The United States will
> recommend at the next meeting that a special committee be established 
> within the
> next year to make recommendations on GII-related patent issues ."
>
> "In a separate venue, one hundred countries and international 
> intergovernmental
> organizations participate as members of WIPO's permanent committee on 
> industrial
> property information (PCIPI). The United States will attempt to establish a
> working group of this organization to address GII-related patent issues."
>
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