From phm@a2e.de Thu, 6 Jul 2000 20:04:50 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 20:04:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] Re: FT Germany article

The article was not worth translating.

Financial Times Deutschland just cried "wolf".

The EU commission has decided nothing, that FTD knows about.

>From how I read the article, it becomes clear that the EU commission

Wants approach 1 of two approaches which Bernhard Mueller lists in his
article analysed by ffii at

	http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/cur-bmueller00de.html
	http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/cur-bmueller00en.html

which means that it wants software patents but not non-computer-based
business methods.

I suspect here a smart move by DG 15:

(1) postpone the swpat decision, get the community patent through first
(2) mobilise the software patent lawyer lobby
(3) demobilise the anti-swpat lobby
(4) go ahead later this year exactly as planned

-phm





