Re: [Patents] state of the patent in europe?

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

France is officially opposing the directive proposal.

see
http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/cgi-bin/industrie/sommaire/comm/comm.cgi?COM_ID=1562&_Action=200

this press release, in French, contains references to letters sents by
the French minister in charge to the 2 commissioners involved.

Now we have to get a similar result in some other countries...
 ...  with official government statements.

It can be  blocked at the minister level.

Bernard


On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:48:16PM +0100, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote:
> El Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:36:28PM +0100, Mathieu CARBONNEAUX deia:
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I'm not regular reader of this mailling list...
> > 
> > But, who know if new patent policy is voted by europen community?
> > 
> There is a new directive proposal by BSA that the Comission wants 
> to get approved by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. 
> It was published Feb. 20th 2002. 
> 
> see http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/eubsa-swpat0202/indexen.html
> 
> I don't know wxactly when this will be voted (but would like to know).
> 
> > In page of eurolinux.org, they expect that the community whoud be voted,
> > in 2000?! 
> >
> Software patents were not accepted back then. 
> 
> But the European Patent Office ammended their examination guidelines 
> to make their examiners accept them (they were accepting them before 
> the new guidelines, but this is somewhat more undisciplined, because 
> they've written it down as daily routine). The European Patent Convention 
> still does not allow them, but the EPO is very creative when it 
> comes to interpreting the EPC. No one really believes that those 
> software patents granted are valid, and nobody tries to enforce them, 
> but if the new directive proposal passes, they will be enforceable. 
> 
>  
> > And now they are voted or not?
> >
> They will be soon, so it's time we all talk our representatives about it. 
>  
> > Mathieu
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Xavi Drudis Ferran
> xdrudis@tinet.org

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