From phm@a2e.de  Mon Feb 19 15:33:58 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:33:58 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] Re: Revocation candidates on ffii.org

> The European Commission now wants to create clarity concerning the
> allegedly unclear Art 52.  Our clarification proposal
>
> 	http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/eurili/
> 	http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation/ec-consult.pdf
>
> has been further elaborated.  Now it is time to validate it on existing
> patents.  Let's see whether the borderline is clear or whether there is a
> significant "ambivalence zone" (as has been postulated by some writers).

Of course any inventivity criteria found in Holland or other criteria
developped by Greg can also be put to the same test.  The gist is:

> We should create a definitive list of patents which would have to be
> revoked after a clarifying directive is decreed.  A rule defines
> itself by the output.

-phm





