Re: [Patents] technology definition amendments

[Carsten Svaneborg <svanebor@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>]

On Thursday 03 July 2003 01:12, Russell McOrmond wrote:
>   I believe that each type of subject matter should have independant
> economic analysis to determine how patenting would affect that matter.
> Studies done on one type of subject matter simply cannot be assumed to
> apply to another.

I agree. I think the Bakels-Hugenholtz suggestion of creating a
patent observatory is a reasonable thing, that would go in that
direction.

Currently patentpractice is precedence based, and hence completely
devoid any relation to the way the granted patents works in real life,
e.g. we did this yesterday so we do the same today, irregardless of
society gets any extra innovation out of granting these software
function monopolies.

It is necessary to create a feedback control loop for patentpractice,
such that practice is always rationalised in socio-economic terms.
And this requires an independent monitoring unit.

-- 
  Mvh. Carsten Svaneborg