Re: [Patents] JURI amendments for 22/4 now up (in Italian)

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 14:45, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> > Article 5 is the most addressed, here there are clear positions of
> > people against patetnatbility of programs per se and people in favour.
> > While people countrary gives interesting and sane explanations, the
> > others (in favour of swpat) simply give as excuse that UBE already have
> 
> UBE (Ufficio di Brevetti Europeo) = EPO

ops sorry, I should have used the English acronym :)

> > a practice and we should follow it blindly.
> 
> The list of MEPs who advocate this blind following of the EPO is quite
> disturbing.  It includes
> 
>       Willy De Clercq (BE, ELDR)
>       Ward Beysen (BE, ELDR)
>       Malcolm Harbour (UK, EUPP)
>       Werner Langen (DE, EUPP)
>       Fourtou & Schaffner (FR, EUPP)
>       Maria Berger (AT, PSE)

Yes I can confirm their amendments go in the swpat direction,
unfortunately not all of them are clear and some try to do in subtle
ways.

> T. Manders is against the directive on formalistic grounds and would
> prefer to have a regulation, which doesn't require parliament approval,
> instead.  He also asks for insertion of "computer-implemented inventions"
> into Art 52 EPC.
> 
> Kauppi (FI, EUPP), who has expressed herself anti-swpat many times, has
> submitted only 2 amendments, which I find difficult to understand (making
> things even more complicated) and useless, as they play the lawyers' game
> of giving patents precedence over interoperability by opaque formulas.
> It seems that within EUPP there is strong pressure to obey the EPO.

People I've found unclear or pro swpat are (based only on this
document):

Toine Manders (he is clearly pro swpat from amendments)
Bert Doorn (he is clearly pro swpat from amendments)
Piia-Noora Kauppi (unclear)
Willi Rothley (unclear)
Maria Berger (she seem pro sw pat from amendments)
Werner Langen (he is clearly pro swpat from amendments and comments)
Malcom Harbour (he seem pro sw pat from amendments)
Jannely Fourtou (she seem pro sw pat from amendments)
Anne-Marie Schaffner (she seem pro sw pat from amendments)
Ward Beysen (he seem pro sw pat from amendments)
Willy C.E.H. De Clercq (he is clearly pro swpat from amendments and
comments)
Arlene McCarthy (unclear)


Simo.

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