[Patents] Re: World Intellectual Property Day is April 26, 2001

[jzickermann@mail.EUnet.pt (Jorge Zickermann)]

Shouldn=B4t these debates be moderated by an administrator in order to keep
the standard of the newsgroup? I=B4ve seen that done before and it makes the
Internet a better place. A bit like police on the streets.


> From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
> Reply-To: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:39:55 +0200 (CEST)
> To: "webmaster@softwarelaw.com" <softwarelaw@lawyer.com>
> Cc: <patents@liberte.aful.org>, <epo@mlist.austria.eu.net>
> Subject: Re: Re: [Patents] Re: World Intellectual Property Day is April 2=
6,
> 2001
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> Fred Mobach wrote:
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>> Long time ago I saw such childish behavior on the net. Or maybe an
>> adolescent who wrote this.
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> Unfortunately Mr. Smith is not an adolescent but a well-known writer of
> pro software patent articles on renowned patent law magazines.
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> Mr. Smith, I hope to see you putting back his website online without much
> delay and declaring in public that you are not in physical danger and tha=
t
> you are sorry for having acted in a way suitable to create that
> impression.
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> Otherwise I may report the case to a criminal prosecutor.
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> Libel itself is the first stage in a development toward nasty warfare
> which we don't want to see getting started.  I also beg all patent
> professionals on this list to take appropriate steps to make it clear
> that, no matter how strongly you may support Mr. Smith's opinion on
> software patents, you do not approve of his libel tactics or what might
> look like such tactics. By making that clear, you can counteract the
> necessity of getting criminal authorities involved in a discourse that
> should be purely aimed at enhancing mutual understanding.
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> Thank you
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> Hartmut Pilch
> Federation for a Free Information Infrastructure
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