Re: [Patents] Slashdot questions. Cancelled

[Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>]

Slashdot says the interview has been cancelled. 

We were going to run European Patent Examiner John Savage's answers to 10 
Slashdot questions  today, but he emailed us this morning and asked us to 
pull them back because he was was in trouble over the interview. What he had 
to say was informative, non-controversial, and would not have hurt his 
employer's reputation at all, but we don't want John to lose his job or face 
disciplinary action on our account. Anyway, get ready for a slightly unusual 
Slashdot interview guest next week: Celeb chef and self-described "culinary 
cartographer" Alton Brown.

Opinions at

http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/02/08/09/0012208.shtml?tid=155

tend to suspect censorship by the EPO. The funny part is that they 
are suprised by a lack of democratic values at the EPO. They wouldn't 
if they had read either of 

English/German http://swpat.ffii.org/players/epo/index.en.html
Catalan http://www.caliu.org/Caliu/Patents/porc.html

or

http://www.usoeb.org/Suepo/kontrol.htm

This last one is no longer available. I last saw it on may 5th, 2002. 
If anybody has a copy, please contact me. 

-- 
Xavi Drudis Ferran
xdrudis@tinet.org