From phm@a2e.de  Wed Mar 28 08:53:14 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:53:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] South African ecommerce associations looking to Brussels
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0103280951190.7196-100000@querty.oas.a2e.de>

Under

  http://www.sabcnews.com/SABCnews/economy/business/0,1009,12878,00.html

two southafrican ecommerce-related trade associations ask the southafrican
government to amend its laws and procedures in order to bring them in line
with "international developments", especially those of the US and the EU.
Apparently they also propose mimicking US and EU on e-patents:

<<They agree that legislation amending the law of copyright, which has
been impacted by the Internet, is needed to bring it into line with the
realities of the new economy. Although no questions of policy on patents
are raised in the Green Paper, they increasingly serve as a mechanism for
protecting business processes and computer programs in other
jurisdictions. Suggestions were made to examine these developments with a
view to enhancing South African law in this regard.>>

-phm



