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- From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- To: news@ffii.org, PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- Cc: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Finnish organisations against CEC/BSA Directive Proposal
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:16:49 -0400 (EDT)
The following is a false history of American patent policy:
>"Software patenting legislation in the United States was pushed
>through by powerful lobby groups in the 1980s, with almost no
>public discussion. ..., says Mikko Valimaki, chairman of EFFi.
Wrong. Software patenting for the most part in America is a
judicially determined policy, that is, a series of decisions from
the US Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit in the 1980s and
1990s gradually opened up all of software to patenting.
I hope the rest of your arguments are less false.
Greg Aharonian
- Re: [Patents] Finnish organisations against CEC/BSA Directive Proposal, Gregory Aharonian
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