[Patents] consultation and conference

[Ville Oksanen Ville@turre.com]

>Thats why Germany, France and UK are pleading for a moratorium: They want
to
>wait and see where things are going in Brussels before making a decision in
>Munich.


And that's most likely also the position of Finland, at least that seems to
be the message from Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry (btw: in the
hearing meeting the person who was from Finnish Patent Office was strongly
against sw-patents because they feel that they aren't ready  for the change
(as a matter of fact he made even some remarks about the general sillyness
of sw-patents, a very pleasant surprise)) Unfortunately Nokia and expecially
Sonera are in favor of software patents which may still change the
situation..

Ville Oksanen
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