From phm@a2e.de  Fri Nov  3 09:17:46 2000
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:17:46 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] swedish discussions?

> Does anyone know if a similar discussion is taking place in the swedish
> patent office (PRV)?
> 
> If there is one, I would like to know how to attend.

It isn't particularly helpful for us if these discussions are organised by
patent offices.  The patent offices will always present questions that are
geared to patent lawyers and their websites will be visited majoritarily
by patent lawyers.  The UK and EU websites also spread disinformation
about the current legal situation and use that as a basis for discussion.

We should organise something ourselves, perhaps together with the
governments.

To get a real discussion going, we need to conduct systematic opinion
research.  I recently found out that most responsible managers at Siemens
telecommunication believe that the patent system is a burden for their
field that is slowing down innovation.  But they wouldn't go to a public
consultation site and say that.

-phm






