Re: [Patents] CLA Conference right after Software Patent "Public Meeting"

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

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 05:37:11PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote:
> - still no news of a coach party to the forthcoming software
> patents "public meeting" (the one, you remember, in Brussels
> on 2002-11-07, in the cupboard beneath the European
> Parliament stairs, next to the sign saying "Beware of the
> Leopard"). However, Andy Ellam wrote in to point out that
> the person doing the drafting for the Parliament is slightly
> closer to home. ARLENE MCCARTHY, MEP for the North West,
> will be writing the software patent legislation - so if
> you're a concerned constituent, you might want to give her a
> little note explaining your worries. Or, if there's a crowd
> of you, see if you can't organise a meeting. Fax and email
> details are at http://www.arlenemccarthy.labour.co.uk/ ;.
>

The public hearing on Nov 7th is not much publicized AFAIK.  But at
least the working documents from the rapporteur Arlene McCarthy MEP
are public. From her texts I infer she is quite pro software patents,
although she said she's "open minded".

See our critique at 
http://www.caliu.org/Caliu/Patents/mcCarthy-facts.html ;
http://www.caliu.org/Caliu/Patents/mcCarthy-opinion.html ;

I'm not sure of these URLs from memory, if wrong, follow 
the links from 

http://www.caliu.org/Caliu/Patents/dgiv.html

In fact, somewhere at swpat.ffii.org there are better 
versions of  those texts, they should be linked from 
the URLs above.

I'm  told everybody is (or at least was) welcome to the
hearing. But an invitation is required. you can ask for invitations
to user rbray at host  europar.eu.int. I don't know if it's 
too late now. Invitations come with postal mail.