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- From: Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>
- To: taavid@hot.ee
- Cc: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] IPI2000
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:30:41 +0200 (CEST)
> IPI 2000: The Economic Impact of Patentability of Computer Programs.
> http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/indprop-ipi00/index.en.html:
>
> [...]
> Yet the CEC Indrop people did not like the study: they locked it away for
> half a year. During this time the European patent establishment was
> preparing to rewrite Art 52 EPC so as to remove all limits of
> patentability. In October 2000, after the plans been dropped, CEC/Indprop
> suddenly published the IPI treatise and used it as a basis for a
> "consultation exercise".
> [...]
>
> Why did they lock it away? Didn't they like the study?
The study said, amidst a lot of pro-patent propaganda, that
"any proposal to extend patentability cannot claim to rest on
solid economic evidence".
> And why were plans of "removing all the limits" dropped?
because of strong protests and because some politicians saw this as a
welcome opportunity to strengthen the EU's influence in the matter.
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-12789608
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
145,000 votes 400 firms against software patents http://noepatents.org/
- IPI2000, taavid
- Re: [Patents] IPI2000, Hartmut Pilch
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