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- From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
- Subject: [Patents] the technical invention ... tomorrow
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:32:46 +0200
Here are the last details about the Stuttgart event:
http://swpat.ffii.org/penmi/linuxtag-2001/
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15 years of European ePATENTS
The technical invention 1986, today and tomorrow
Seminar 2001-07-05 Stuttgart Linuxtag CCA III
FFII.org, ENEF.org, VOV.de and eurolinux.org
Introduction
Around 1986 European manuals and commentaries of patent law
unanimously explained that european patent law does not
offer the software industry any chances of obtaining
patents to protect its investments against imitators. Some
complained that copyright was not enough, but yet agreed
that the only way to change this situation was through
legislation. Few noticed that the change was already
underway: it was implied in ambiguous wordings of the
European Patent Office's Examination Guidelines of 1985:
the door was opened by a narrow slot for "computer programs
with a technical effect", and the ground was prepared for
further loosening of the concept of technical character, in
a way that, according to the legal doctrines of the time,
amounted to removing all overseeable limits on
patentability. A year later, in 1986, the slot was widened
into a visible breach by two decisions of the EPO's
Technical Board of Appeal. Since then, the EPO has granted
more than 30000 patents for (un)technical teachings that
had previously been regarded as unpatentable "rules of
organisation and calculation" or "computer programs as
such". Judges and law scholars have meanwhile proposed
various delimitation concepts in order to make sense of
this somewhat chaotic caselaw development. This seminar
aims to assess to what extent this has been achieved or can
be achieved. We need to research into the space of
innovations, as they are distributed along coordinates such
as matter vs mind, laws of nature vs rules of calculation,
concrete vs abstract, solution vs problem, trivial vs
difficult, causal vs functional etc, and what kind of
results various possible rules of delimitation tend to
produce within this space. An empirical basis for this
innovation cartography is provided by the patents which the
EPO has granted during the last 15 years. A seminar on
thursday 2001-07-05 at Linuxtag on the Stuttgart trade fair
site and subsequent seminars, conducted by several
interested associations, are expected to give rise to
interesting new ideas in this intellectually intriguing and
politically important interdisciplinary area.
* When?
* Where?
* How?
* Schedule (2001-07-05, Thursday)
* Podium Discussion (2001-07-08, Sunday)
* Organisers and Supporters
* Participants
...
When?
2001-07-05, Thursday, 10.00-18.00
Moreover there is a podium discussion on sunday.
Where?
Stuttgart/Killesberg Trade Fair Area, Linuxtag, CCA III
How to get there
By train:
Stuttgart central station (Hauptbahnhof), subway U7 to
Killesberg/Messe
by car:
look for traffic signposts to "Messegelände Killesberg"
or "Messe".
hotline on site: arnim 0173-3201 286, phm 0170-3707531
How?
If you want to participate actively, please contact
linuxtag-2001@ffii.org informally. If you just want to
listen, no registration is necessary.
We would like to link weave submitted texts into this
website and also bring them into a paper form (PDF). A
followup seminar is being planned.
Schedule (2001-07-05, Thursday)
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Time | Problems |Speakers|
|------+-----------------------------------------+--------|
| |the software patents of the EPO | |
| | | |
|10: | * classification and examples | |
|00-11:| * function claims: problems or |ar, xuan|
|00 | solutions? |etc |
| | * difficulty and abstractness | |
| | * statistics: distribution and | |
| | historical development | |
|------+-----------------------------------------+--------|
| |solving problems by natural forces or by | |
| |calculation -- The concepts of invention | |
| |and technical character in the EPC and in| |
| |customary law until 1986 | |
| | | |
|11: | * Dispositionsprogramm 1976, |phm, |
|30-12:| Walzstabteilung 1980, |xuan etc|
|30 | Antiblockiersystem 1980 etc | |
| | * Physical modelling of logics (Turing | |
| | machine) vs logical modelling of | |
| | physics (crash test simulation) | |
| | * How many of today's EPO patents can/ | |
| | must be viewed as technical? | |
|------+-----------------------------------------+--------|
| |case-by-case development since 1986, | |
| |possible systematisations and their | |
| |effects | |
| | | |
| | * Vicom (1986), Sohei (1986), Koch & | |
| | Sterzel (1987), Chinesische | |
| | Schriftzeichen (1992), Seitenpuffer | |
| | (1992), Tauchcomputer (1993), IBM | |
| | computer programm product (1997), | |
|13: | Automatische Absatzsteuerung (1998), |te, rn |
|30-14:| Sprachanalyse (2000), |etc |
|30 | Logikverifikation (2000), Suche | |
| | fehlerhafter Zeichenketten (2000), | |
| | pension fund system (2000) etc | |
| | * Schar (EPO): invention = practical | |
| | repeatable solution | |
| | * Melullis (BGH): invention = concrete | |
| | solution without underlying concept | |
| | * Chisum 1986, Nack 1999, Laat 2000 | |
| | etc: invention = abstract repeatable | |
| | solution. What's the harm? | |
|------+-----------------------------------------+--------|
| |Where does copyright offer an | |
| |insufficient incentive and what | |
| |alternatives exist? | |
| | | |
| | * Newell 1986, Tamai 1998 etc: Rules of| |
| | organisation and computation are | |
| | either trivial or abstract | |
|15: | * how to weight the need for |jh, rb, |
|00-16:| appropriability against the need for |cl etc |
|30 | freedom in in the technical vs | |
| | untechnical realm | |
| | * Problems of the patent system in the | |
| | area of classical technical | |
| | inventions as seen from the struggle | |
| | around AIDS pharmaceutics. Do we need| |
| | a to put more research into the | |
| | public domain? | |
|------+-----------------------------------------+--------|
|17: |public presentation withdiscussion: |Daniel |
|00-18:|European software patents and free |Riek |
|00 |software | |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
Podium Discussion (2001-07-08, Sunday)
Moreover on sunday some of our participants will take part
in a Podium Discussion on software patents, which has been
scheduled as a concluding event of the Linuxtag congress.
When?:
2001-07-08 14:30-16:00
Where?:
CongressCentrum B/Hall X a/b
Schedule:
Each of the 4 participants gives a short lecture (5
minutes) about one question. Then there are 5 minutes
for a discussion. At the end the listeners ask
questions.
+-----------------------------------------------------+
|Time| Problems |Speakers |
|----+--------------------------------------+---------|
|14: |What do typical European software | |
|30 |patents look like? How many "good |xuan |
| |patents" are there? | |
|----+--------------------------------------+---------|
| |The limits of patentability: Does the | |
|14: |universal computer necessarily turn | |
|50 |any new rule of organisation and |js |
| |calculation into a "technical | |
| |invention"? | |
|----+--------------------------------------+---------|
|15: |What kind of investment protection do |ft |
|10 |software companies need today? | |
|----+--------------------------------------+---------|
|15: |? ? ? |listeners|
|30 | | |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
Organisers and Supporters
We thank especially Skyrix AG for taking over travel costs
and SuSE Linux AG for setting free personal resouces for
the support of this seminar. You may wish to visit their
booths on Linuxtag and take a close look at their products
and services.
FFII
ENEF
VOV
EUROLINUX
SKYRIX
SUSE
Participants
The following participants have registered so far.
+---------------------------------------------------------+
|Arnim Rupp |Heidelberg|European Software Patent Horror |
| | |Gallery |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|N.N. |Berlin |European Net Economy Forum |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |Wrote a very enlightening study |
|Jean-Paul |FR Paris |on the software patentability |
|Smets | |question at the order of a French|
| | |governmental body. |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Józef |PL |Polish Patent Office |
|Halbersztadt|Warszawa | |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |speaker of the Internet |
|Gerd Becker |Stuttgart |association of the Social |
| | |Democratic Party of Germany |
| | |(VOV.de) |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |software entrepreneur, author of |
| | |a popularising presentation of |
|Xuan Baldauf|Leipzig |the problems, has developped |
| | |detailed thoughts about the |
| | |concept of technical invention in|
| | |the course of the work of FFII. |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Thomas |Berlin |Lawyer, dissertation about |
|Ebinger | |software and technical character |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |Max Planck Institute for |
| | |International Patent Copyright |
| | |and Competition Law, dissertation|
|Ralph Nack |München |about limits of patentability |
| | |especially concering business |
| | |methods: new caselaw and possible|
| | |systematic interpretations |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Jürgen | |RA Dipl. Phys., Justitiar des |
|Siepmann |Freiburg |Linux-Verbands, Autor zahlreicher|
| | |Artikel über Softwarepatente |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Christian |Hannover |has studied pharma patent |
|Labadie | |problems of developping countries|
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |Expert of scientific literature |
| | |concerning software |
|Holger |Munich |patentability, mastermind of |
|Blasum | |documentation work at FFII, |
| | |deliverer of novelty destroying |
| | |documents for Bountyquest |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |board member of Linux-Verband, |
|Daniel Riek |Bonn |manager of Alcove Deutschland |
| | |GmbH |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Hartmut |Munich |Employee of SuSE Linux AG, |
|Pilch | |president of FFII |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |VOSN en Software Patenten and |
| | |Software entrepreneur, has been |
| | |working on the patent issue on |
|Luuk van |NL |behalf of a Dutch IT organisation|
|Dijk |Groningen |and has received the order of the|
| | |dutch parliament to work out a |
| | |compromise paper with the pro |
| | |patent side that would at least |
| | |prevent trivial software patents.|
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |teaches in a school of |
|Flemming |DK |administration of Copenhague, has|
|Bjerke |Købnhavn |reinvented the concept of |
| | |technical invention in is EC |
| | |consultation paper. |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |directs informatic research |
| | |projects in a leading Japanese |
|NIIBE Yutaka|JP Tsukuba|research center and has |
| | |critically observed the expansion|
| | |of patentability in Japan |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Ralf |Frankfurt |founder and CEO of |
|Schwöbel | |Intradat AG |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Till Jäger |Hamburg |ifross.de (lawyer) |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Andreas |Schwerte |Unternehmensberater, board member|
|Stöckigt | |of German Informatics Society |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
|Hubertus |Berlin |German Ministery of Economics |
|Soquat | | |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |researcher on economics of |
|Norman |Frankfurt |software patents at Frankfurt |
|Hoppen | |University, recently organised a |
| | |conference on this subject |
|------------+----------+---------------------------------|
| | |Software developper with a strong|
|Erik | |political and philosophical |
|Josefsson |SE Malmö |interest, well aware of the |
| | |software patents situation in |
| | |Sweden |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
...
--
Hartmut Pilch http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
80000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
- [Patents] the technical invention ... tomorrow, PILCH Hartmut
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