Re: [Patents] Patents meeting in Cambridge last week - follow up

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> Still much of this is under the assumption that
>
>       1. We somehow can't get around software patents
>       2. There is a lot of good will out there for reforming the patent
>          system
>
> I think these two assumptions contradict each other.
>
> If there was good will for all the small reform measures which you are
> proposing, then there would also be good will for considering to adopt
> a strict approach such as that in the early days of the European Patent
> Office, which you find exemplified at
>
>       http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/epo-t850022/

To say it better: many of the reform measures which the participants of
your meeting proposed are much more far-reaching and difficult to
implement than a decision to return to the standards of EPO T22/85, i.e. a
correct interpretation of the current law.