From phm@a2e.de  Wed Sep 20 13:56:21 2000
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:56:21 +0200 (CEST)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] leaders of all German parties against swpat

Today the speaker of the Christian Democrats announced their
position: request of a 2 years moratorium on art 52 and
commencement of discussion about a sui generis protection scheme.

The positions of the Green and Liberal party were announced earlier and
are even more uncompromisingly anti-swpat.

There is no official position of the Social Democrats, but several of
their opinion leaders and the people in the ministery of economics have
expressed either an anti-swpat or a moratorium position.

-phm
 





