[Patents] WIPO ecommerce conference 2001-09-19..21 Geneva

[cphil@cphil.net (Philippe Coulonges)]

Le Lundi 30 Juillet 2001 21:19, PILCH Hartmut a écrit :
> The conference
>
>   http://www.wipo.org/pressroom/en/alert/2001/ma08.htm
>
> was announced here before.  It contains a session on software patents, to
> which not only John Mogg (long-term believer in beneficial effects of
> patents in "all fields of technology", heading the European Commission's
> industrial property office which is in charge of the planned software
> patentability directive) and some other patent movement speakers but also,
> as a kind of exotic element for enriching one of the sessions, Prof
> Randall Davis, co-author of the Manifesto (demanding a software-specific
> anti-imitation regime instead of both patents and copyright) is invited.
>
> For details of the program and speakers see:
>
>       http://ecommerce.wipo.int/meetings/2001/conference/
>
> I wonder if this could be a good place and time for organising a side
> session on the Technical Invention like in Stuttgart.
>

Does someone know who is 

Mr. Randall Davis
 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 United States of America

and why he is invited to speak amongst all these lawyers and intellectual 
property owners ?

CU
CPHIL

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