[Patents] mobbing and libel tactics on epo@mlist

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Nicholas J White wrote:

> Will you idiots please grow-up.

Let's ignore provocations of this quality.
I took epo@mlist.austria.eu.net and all the other addresses out of the
list of recipients.

Maybe Dr. Janice Williams, George Meadows, Michael J. Smith, Nicholas J
White and others are all the same person, a kind of agent provacateur who
is trying to make us look unserious.  When they start using libel tactics,
they must be warned, otherwise it is enough to document in our archives
to what poor weapons our discourse opponents are resorting.  What is
shameful here is not these people themselves.  There are always such
rogues or agents provocateurs in any political battle.  The real shame
lies on the patent community, on all those people on
epo@mlist.austria.eu.net who are apparently tacitly applauding this kind
of behaviour and failing to lift the discussion to a higher level.
Many benevolent attempts were made from our side.  Nobody took them up.

I thought patent lawyers were a fairly educated group.

-phm