[Patents] Economic assessment

[PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de]

> Dear Mr. Ahorian,
> 
>     I have spend one hour in a panel discussion in Munich recently where
> Mr Pilch participated. Please be assured that all other participants had
> considerable difficulties following Mr. Pilch's line of reasoning.
> Specifically, he found no support for his definition of "technical" that
> excluded information-based processes.

You probably mean the patent lawyer conference of Nov 19th in the Arabella
hotel.  I didn't expose the technicity concept very much there, but when I
did, I got applause from quite a few lawyers who found it easy to follow.
Of course not patent lawyers. They make their living on not being able to
understand this distinction.

One of the lawyers compared his patent lawyer colleagues to the lawyers of
the Third Reich who were clinging to caselaw on race discrimination
without being willing to ask whether this caselaw itself was based on
sound and consistent theories.

-phm