[Patents] A comment on Prof. Pascual's paper

[PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de]

> So once again, whatever complaints you have about software patents
> apply to hardware patents (go ask anyone who has gotten a letter
> from Rambus).  If European governments accept the above logic, they
> will have to apply it to hardware as well as software.

non sequitur.
Even if "hardware patents" were equally bad in their consequences,
politicians would still be free to distinguish.
Moreover the distinguishing criterion isn't or at least doesn't have to be
"software vs hardware".
Isn't it tiresome for you, too, to keep reiterating long-refuted
arguments?
Are your mental ressources used up or what is the matter? 
 
> Now I know most of you hate these hardware analogies, and want to
> focus solely on fighting software patents, but politicians and
> bureacrats can't.  They will be hit with arguments like the one
> I make above, especially arguments coming out of EPO to put
> software and hardware patents on equal footing.  Unless you have
> a good counterargument, other than the physical/informational
> which is too abstruse for politicians, you lose.

We have proven that the contrary is true.

Anyway, Why should anybody believe prophecies of an American patent
professional on European politics?  If it is you private gamble or
betting, why should anybody care?

Isn't there some megalomania involved in this?

-phm