[Patents] German Minister of Justice speaks out against Swpat

[PILCH Hartmut phm@openecs.org]

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.
 
-phm