From phm@a2e.de  Sun Nov 26 13:29:17 2000
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:29:17 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] translation of historical documents

Greg offered

> In fact, if it doesn't cost too much, I would be willing to pay
> someone on this discussion list to translate that decision into
> English.

What would you be willing to pay for a translation of the Kolle article on
the non-technicity of computer programs, based on the Dispositionsprogramm
decision, of 1977

	http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/grur-kolle77de.html

and for the recent Federal Patent Court decision which rejected claims to
a "computer program" and a "computer program product" and refuted some of
the recent theories of EPO and BGH, based on the traditional technicity
theory:

	http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/bpatg17w6998de.html

We might announce that you are paying this sum and then find a translator.  
Some people are willing to do this work for a fairly low pay, but it would
not be very realistic to offer less than US cent per character.

-phm








