[Patents] the law as it is

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> > > (1) If Open Software groups are really serious about stopping software
> > > patenting then, subject to what I say below, they will have to tackle 
> > > the
> > > law as it is now, not twenty-plus years ago;
> >
> > We are tackling the law as it is.
> > Certain groups of lawyers have deviated from it in a way that was
> > anticipated by the Dispositionsprogramm decision and by law textbooks in
> > the 80s, see
>
> Hartmut,  who are you responding to ?
>
> there is apparenlty another list involved ... which I do not receive,
> and refuses my mail.

You can subscribe to it, the information can be found via

        http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/mrilu/

which is a description of relevant mailing lists around this subject.
In this case, I guess it was intprop-l@topica.com.

Btw, the treatise and literature overview

        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/korcu/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/korcu/indexen.html
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/korcu/korcuen.pdf

about the legal situation of swpat in Europe is now perhaps worth printing
and showing to some people.  A French version is also under way.

I think given this evidence, it is hard for anyone to keep claiming that
"the law has evolved" and what the EPO is doing is legal.  Notice also
the new legal analysis of Prof. Lenz (english summary only).

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