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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Re: US patent reform strategy inaugurated by myths & lies
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:31:05 +0200 (CEST)
> Many software patents are as ignored as patents in other areas of
> technology, especially Electronic patents.
Maybe much of what you call "electronic patents" are about functional
logic patents and still counted among the 3% of the EPO patents which do
not relate to technical inventions.
> Patent lawsuits are rare in general, only about 1-2 percent of patents
> get litigated. I suspect the percentage of software patent lawsuits
> is the same as the percentage of software patents.
That would mean that we should have had 300-600 swpat lawsuits in Europe.
> Of course, for those spinning paranoid fantasies, no other patents
> exist and no other lawsuits are filed. And therefore software
> patents are evil for their existence. Pass the popcorn.
Whell, then show us a few of these 300-600 european swpat lawsuits which
according to your estimate must exist. I badly need to know more about
them and document them.
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-12789608
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
120,000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
- myths & lies, (continued)
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