Re: [Patents] Patents meeting in Cambridge today

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 03:07:52PM +0200, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> > - Robert Bray - the EU official responsible for drafting the directive 
> > will
> > discuss the directive and the process of legislation through Parliament.
> 
> If there is any "EU official responsible for ..." that is Anthony Howard,
> not Robert Bray.

responsible for ... but not author of ...

as it is known that the author is Francisco Mingorance of BSA.

The only real question seems to be whether the source of the problem
is ideology or corruption.

Bernard

> Robert Bray works in the secretariat of the European Parliament.  Nothing
> in the directive is written by him.  I assume he'd be quite keen on
> insisting that this is so.
> 
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