Re: [Patents] OECD survey... swpats are not contributing to innovation and economic growth

[ehj <ehj@cleosan.com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:03, Carsten Svaneborg wrote:
> OECD Survey: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Innovation and Economic 
> Performance  see http://www.oecd.org/sti/ipr
> 
> Changes in IPR, along with developments in industrial innovation and the 
> economy at large, have altered the relationships among IPR, innovation and 
> economic performance. A new OECD study will investigate these changes
> and provide empirical information to guide ongoing policy debates about IPR.
> http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/12/28/2498379.pdf

on OECD:

"Even the EPO is showing signs of wanting to move away from its current
practise. EPO president Dr. Ingo Kober has told journalists in November
2002 that software patentability is a bad idea, and vice president Prof.
Manuel Desantes said at the OECD meeting on 2003-08-29 in Paris: "If, as
the evidence which we heard during this conference suggests, software
patents are not contributing to innovation and economic growth in
Europe, we are willing to stop granting such patents, regardless of any
discussions about technical effects, which usually lead nowhere." The
presiding judge of the German Federal Court of Justice, Dr.
Klaus-Juergen Melullis, recently moroever criticised the proposed
directive, pointing out that it codifies a practise which is undesirable
and incompatible with the existing law. By codifying an undesirable
practise, the directive would arrest this practise and prevent its
correction."

http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/amccarthy030901/#natkort

//Erik