Re: [Patents] Discussion tomorrow with Eero Bomanson (HELP)

[Stefano Maffulli <stef@zoomata.com>]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 00:41, Ville Oksanen wrote:
> Any suggestions how to counter these arguments? The audience is mostly
> IP-lawyers, which means that I'm anyway facing an up-hill battle.. Also, do
> you have any questions for Mr Bomanson, I hope that I will be able to get
> some answers out of him.

Is GSM a patented technology?  If not, mention that Nokia (and overall
European) success with wireless technology was based on the fact that
there is a widely adopted and free standard that anybody can
implement.... 

I know it is an argument about standards, more than about sw patents,
but you may use it as a demonstration that not putting
artificial/illegal obstacles to technology does indeed lead to huge
market growth and huge income for companies.  Stress that GSM is a whole
european succes.

regards
stef

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