[Patents] WIPO drive for unlimited patentability and limited patent quality

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> Under
>
>   http://www.wipo.org/pressroom/en/updates/2001/upd132.htm
>
> you find a communique of WIPO on the new round of negotiations that are to
> set fixed limits on what may be demanded from patentees in return for
> obtaining a patent.  Moreover this treaty is to contain a variant of what
> has already been written into Art 27 of TRIPS: the stipulation that
> patents must be granted for anything new, non-obvious and useful.
> Different from TRIPS, the SPLT draft avoids even a reference to
> "technology", thus leaving less room for "restrictive" definitions.

see also

        http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/wipo-splt01/

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