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