[Patents] Re: FT Germany article

[Stefane Fermigier sf@fermigier.com]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:04:50PM +0200, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> 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

OK. That's just what I thought I understood. That means we're really not 
done yet.

        S.

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