Re: [Patents] Patent (abuse) cases ie. Acacia, SightSound, USA Video

[ehj <ehj@cleosan.com>]

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:26, Hartmut Pilch wrote:

> At the recent OECD conference, the US government's representative said
> that such conferences are useless and the debates of the economists
> harmful, because the patent system as is is "basically good" and the US
> will not permit any policy except one that "extends and strengthens" this
> system.  The same representatives have also been doing their best to kill
> discussions on proper limits of "IP" at WIPO and other UN organisations.

like here:

"The [US-] Delegation expressed the view that the inclusion of a
"technical" or "industrial" requirement would result in the standards
for protection for inventions throughout the world to slip backwards,
eroding the level of protection for inventors and inventions everywhere.
The Delegation was of the opinion that the end result of the
discussions, if it were based in part on any of those elements, would
not be acceptable to the United States of America, and accordingly, the
Delegation might well have to reconsider its participation in those
discussions." (page 30)

http://www.wipo.org/scp/en/documents/session_7/pdf/scp7_8.pdf

//Erik