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

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> >     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.

No, they are still rather easy to understand.  What they want is
legalisation of program claims, i.e. claims of the form

What is claimed is

1. process of storing files on a disk, characterised by that ...
2. a computer program product, characterised by that upon loading it into
   memory the [ very very technical ] process of claim 1 is carried out.
3. a data structure, characterised by that when loaded into memory the
   [ very very technical ] process of claim 1 is carried out .


The [ very very technical ] obfuscation is usually left out in the patent
texts themselves, but the amendments of our EPO-obedient MEPs contain it.
It serves the sole purpose of making this extension appear somehow
restrictive and making it difficult for readers like you to understand
what is meant.

> 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)

You can also count their actions as "pro-swpat" simply based on the fact
that they are submitting only meaningless or aggravating amendments to
McCarthy's already extremely pro-swpat text.

Of course most of these people are not really pro-swpat but obedient to
certain sources of authority whom they consider to be the political
big-weights.

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