[Patents] media continue disinformation about BMWi study

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

Under

  http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2826171,00.html
  Germany speaks out for open source

you find another clueless article on the recent German study. A
pseudo-debate about "maintaining the conservative EPO practise" vs
"extending patent laws to adjust to US practise" is under way, and
European journalists, are copying/translating/transcribing press releases
exchanged between patent movement activists wearing the hats of
governments, corporations or law firms.

That is how the invisible hand in the newsmedia economy, especially on the
Internet, works:  it punishes real research and rewards fast thoughtless
"copywriting".  The iron rule of such copywriting is

        Thou shalt not reveal thy source

Thus you find the same junk all over the news media, without a link to the
original press release, but each of them hoping to attract some hits to
some advertiser's page.

Given these iron rules, we must be glad that the media treat the subject
at all.

More real information about this is being built up at

        http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/bmwi-fhgmpi01/

But never expect this link to be given by any of the upcoming clueless big
media reports.

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Hartmut Pilch                                         http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation      http://swpat.ffii.org/
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