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- From: Fred Mobach fred@mobach.nl
- Subject: [Patents] Re: Patents digest, Vol 1 #285 - 10 msgs
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:44:22 +0200
> From: Pierre BREESE <pb@breese.fr>
> To: patents@liberte.aful.org
> Subject: [Patents] Free gorilla
> `
> When you manage an commercial activity, in software or in all kind of
> activities, you
> have to take in account IP rights of your competitors, even when you
> choose not filing
> patents for your own innovations.
As could have been read in my previous post I do manage a commercial
activity, it's my living. I do develop software. As far as I have IP rights I
am willing to explain to anyone who wants to pay for my time how my software
works. Period. IP
rights of others ? That's not more than their thoughts written in a formula.
> Software patents DOES EXIST IN EUROPE, and all tactic based on denying
> thise reality is a bad way.
You are encouraging illegal deeds. Software patents are illegal in Europe.
They are as illegal as drugs. No need to explain that to someone from France
? Know that I agree with the French people that many Dutchmen are behaving
illegal regarding
drugs.
> And I'm afraid that the european patent system will clarify the
> situation in
> maintaining the present practice of granting patent software. The 19
> countries involved
> in EPO recently have unanimously assented a modification of art. 52 EPC.
> (The debate
> that led to the 10/9 vote didn?t concern the opportunity of such an
> amendment).
Who is able to explain to me what is happening nowadays in the European Union
regarding software patents ?
In some Dutch ICT newspapers I have read that Mr. Bolkenstein (EU
commissionair) - known in the Netherlands as Bolkje or "little Bolk"- has
decided that the software patents will not be decided upon in November, 2000.
Those articles has
appeared in "De Automatiseringsgids" and "Computable". Both articles were
written in Dutch and I don't have an URL for an English translation. In
"Computable" Mr. Hartmut Pilch has been cited. It seems that the position of
the EU on software
patents was the result of a consultation of IP protagonists before 1997. And
the current lobby against software patents has been considered to restart the
regulation process.
Regards,
Fred Mobach
- [Patents] Re: Patents digest, Vol 1 #285 - 10 msgs, Fred Mobach fred
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