Re: [Patents] European patent

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

No such thing as true cost ...

but how is the extra money used (they are not subsidized, and breaking
even does not exist)  ?

Is it in lobbying for more patents (lobbying by a public organization
is an interesting concept)
  or getting pay raises for the management ?

BTW  how public is their accounting ?

Bernard


On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:06:29PM +0100, Erik Josefsson wrote:
> On 04 Mar 2003 10:07:07 +0100
> Stefano Maffulli <stef@zoomata.com> wrote:
> 
> > http://ue.eu.int/pressData/en/intm/74752.pdf
> 
> > Is this agreement already a main pain-in-the-butt for us or it was
> > expected and it's not that big of a news?
> 
> I don't know yet, I'm reading... I just found this paragraph, it's
> hilarious:
> 
> "4.2 Renewal fees for Community Patents will be payable to the EPO,
> which will keep 50 percent to cover its costs, including the costs of
> searches carried out by NPOs. The remaining 50 percent will be
> distributed among the NPOs of the Community Member States in accordance
> with a distribution key, which will be decided by the Council."
> 
> "keep 50%", what a bargain ;-)
> 
> Is that not also a very "ad hoc" share? Why 50%? Would not a share
> related to the true costs bee something like a three digit number,
> like 45.3%? The deal seems to indicate nobody knows what the
> Collossus in Munich really has for lunch.
> 
> Perhaps this is good, because there will be some sort of public
> controle of the internal financial system of the EPO.
> 
> Now we also need to know the anticipated costs of litigation of
> Community Patents. Here is an US-pat approximation:
> 
> http://www.pearlltd.com/content/pat_inf_law.html
> 
> How could Europe possibly be able to beat that US-efficiency?
> 
> //Erik

-- 
         Non aux Brevets Logiciels  -  No to Software Patents
           SIGNEZ    http://petition.eurolinux.org/    SIGN

Bernard.Lang@inria.fr             ,_  /\o    \o/    Tel  +33 1 3963 5644
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Fax  +33 1 3963 5469
            INRIA / B.P. 105 / 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX / France
         Je n'exprime que mon opinion - I express only my opinion
                 CAGED BEHIND WINDOWS or FREE WITH LINUX