From benjamin@mayrargue.com  Wed Sep 20 13:33:55 2000
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:33:55 +0200
From: Mr Ben benjamin@mayrargue.com
Subject: [Patents] New article in "CB news Web" (french magazine) p23
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
  boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0156_01C02318.2FEE5670"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0156_01C02318.2FEE5670
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

New article in "CB news Web n=B04 (september 2000) about software =
patents.
Author: Fr=E9d=E9ric Couchet, chairman of "April"

He says interestings thing:

1) "Les experts en propri=E9t=E9 intellectuelle, =E0 la fois juge et =
parties, devraient obtenir gain de cause dans l'indiff=E9rence =
g=E9n=E9rale, [...]"
( Experts in Intellectual Property are juges and have direct benefits =
from the law they are going to vote, with noone caring about it.)

2) Life time of a patent is 20 years where a software life is 3 years at =
most.

3) generally speaking, patens benefits big enterprises and big agencies.

4) Every software violates one on more patents (it uses codes from =
others)

5) Only big enterprises and big agencies have enough money to buy lots =
of patents from one of their software.


The question today is "Do you really want to align Europe on USA patents =
system ?",
maybe it soon will become "Is there enough layers in Europe to treat all =
software patents enfrigments [from the new law] ?"...


MrB.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Mr Ben                          http://softbird.free.fr
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +



------=_NextPart_000_0156_01C02318.2FEE5670
Content-Type: text/html;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4207.2601" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ecece1>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>
<P>New article in "CB news Web n=B04 (september 2000) about software=20
patents.<BR>Author: Fr=E9d=E9ric Couchet, chairman of "April"<BR><BR>He =
says=20
interestings thing:<BR><BR>1) "Les experts en propri=E9t=E9 =
intellectuelle, =E0 la=20
fois juge et parties, devraient obtenir gain de cause dans =
l'indiff=E9rence=20
g=E9n=E9rale, [...]"<BR>( Experts in Intellectual Property =
are&nbsp;juges and have=20
direct benefits from the law they are going to vote, with noone caring =
about=20
it.)<BR><BR>2) Life time of a patent is 20 years where a software life =
is 3=20
years at most.<BR><BR>3) generally speaking, patens benefits big =
enterprises and=20
big agencies.<BR><BR>4) Every software violates one on more patents (it =
uses=20
codes from others)</P>
<P>5) Only big enterprises and big agencies have enough money to buy =
lots of=20
patents from one of their software.<BR></P>
<P>The question today is "Do you really want to align Europe on USA =
patents=20
system ?",<BR>maybe it soon will become "Is there enough layers in =
Europe to=20
treat all software patents enfrigments [from the new law] ?"...<BR></P>
<P>MrB.</P>
<P>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<BR>Mr=20
Ben&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs=
p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp=
;&nbsp;=20
<A href=3D"http://softbird.free.fr">http://softbird.free.fr</A><BR>+ + + =
+ + + + +=20
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + +<BR></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

------=_NextPart_000_0156_01C02318.2FEE5670--





