From nico@monnet.to  Mon Oct 30 10:38:20 2000
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:38:20 +0100 (CET)
From: Nicolas MONNET nico@monnet.to
Subject: [Patents] German Minister of Justice speaks out against Swpat

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, PILCH Hartmut wrote:

|I wrote
|
|> Ms Daeubner-Gmelin 
|...
|> gave a press interview, in which she said that software patentability
|> creates big problems for information society, which need to be thouroughly
|> and broadly discussed and that any plans to remove the computer program
|> exclusion from Art 52 EPC must at least be postponed. 
|
|and forgot to mention her strongest statement:  Ms D.G. said that if the
|EPO persists in removing the computer program exemption from the EPC,
|Germany should withdraw from the EPC and pursue an independent patent
|policy through the European Union.

Wow!

She really said THAT?





