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

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> > 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 ?

The answer is in the paragraph you quoted above (but apparently did not
read).