Re: [Patents] Patents meeting - Cambridge (UK), 8pm, tonight

[Alex Macfie <alex@cgce.net>]

At 12:41 07/06/03 +0100, James Heald wrote:
> I wasn't able to get to this.
>
> Can anybody post how it went ?

There were 3 speakers
Philip Martin of patent & trademark law firm Marks and Clerk 
(http://www.marks-clerk.com/), explaining the current legal situation in 
some detail, tho' from an IP lawyer's point of view. When I slightly 
mischievously asked whether he thought that the interests of the "economic 
majority" should be equated with the general public, he said that that was 
outside his area of expertise...

Wookey then explained the anti-swpat position, citing in particular the 
theoretical reasons why software patents are a bad idea, as well as the 
problems with some suggested solutions to the problems of trivial patents 
and of applying the system to software.




> Jeff Veit - Tanasity wrote:
> >
> > If you are near Cambridge you might be interested in this:
> >
> > Join software developers and Intellectual Property practioners at a pubmeet
> > to discuss the proposals
> >
> > Meet at upstairs at CB2, 5-7 Norfolk St, Cambridge, 7.45 pm for 8pm on
> > Thursday 5th June. Admission free, but bring money for food and drink. CB2
> > do good light meals, so you can eat there.
> >
> > Let me, Jeff Veit, know that you are coming - email patents@tanasity.com so
> > that the CB2 are aware of the numbers.. Final notification abou the meeting
> > by email on the afternoon of the 5th. Your email details won't be shared
> > with anyone.
> >
> > Check http://www.tangledtime.com/patents.htm for latest news on the 
> meeting.
> >
> > If you aren't interested or are interested but are unable to attend but a
> > colleague or friend might be interested please let them know - this meeting
> > has been organised quickly and hasn't been widely publicised and I am only
> > sending one mail to each company that I think may be interested.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Jeff Veit
> >
> > http://www.tanasity.com/ - Tanasity develops software and net 
> applications -
> > radical web update next week - and I've said this for 3 months
> > http://www.tangledtime.com/ - Occasional blog about the net, software and
> > business
> > http://www.chase.org.uk/ - Cambridge Hi-Tech Association of Small
> > Enterprises - brilliant networking for hi-tech companies around Cambridge,
> > UK
> > http://www.chaseconference.org.uk/ - Where Angels Dare and VCs also Tread -
> > October 10th 2002 - it's happened but I'm very proud of how successful it
> > was
> >
> > Tanasity
> > Mobile: +44 (0)7812 217448
> > Tel: +44 (0)1223 721499
> > Email: jeff.veit@tanasity.com

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