From phm@a2e.de  Tue Jun  5 10:39:45 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:39:45 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Blurring jurisdictions. The Hague Convention
In-Reply-To: <20010604210835.B917@golem>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106051128370.23966-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

> Does anyone know how likely this is to be approved?. I don't
> know about law, but it all sounds like nonsense to me...
> ... so I fear it could be approved...

I think it will take a lot of time to be approved, but the ministerial
officials who are concerned with it are not likely to adopt a critical
view unless there is a strong public reaction backing that view. Otherwise
the interest of the lawyer community, of which those negotiators are a
part, is likely to prevail, and those who think differently are likely to
keep their mouth shut, as their community will profit enormously by
multiplying the complexity of law by 47 (the number of national
jurisdictions, whose laws could apply to every citizien, at least in the
area of information in the internet, which is not territorial).

FFII and Eurolinux pages on this subject exist:

	http://swpat.ffii.org/cnino/haag016/ (german)
	http://petition.eurolinux.org/hague/ (english)

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Hartmut Pilch                                           http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation	      http://swpat.ffii.org/
79100 signatures against software patents     http://petition.eurolinux.org/









