Re: [Patents] MEPs calling for "strong sanctions" against "any intellectual property infringement"

[Alex Macfie <alex@cgce.net>]

At 12:57 27/03/03 +0100, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> An appeal launched by UK Labour MEP Arlene McCarthy links copyright
> infringement to terrorism (a favorite topic of the UK Patent Office,
> usually as groundless as the links between Iraq and Al Qaida) and calls
> for "strong santions against any intellectual property infringment".

This is the sort of thinking that drove another infamous bearer of the name 
"McCarthy", indeed it is called "McCarthyism" for precisely that reason. 
When I see the name "McCarthy" in these emails I tend to immediately think 
of that man. Now it appears it's not just the name that's similar.

> Arlene McCarthy MEP, Janelly Fourtou MEP, Toine Manders MEP,

Nice to see another familiar name cropping up...

Alex