Re: [Patents] UK government position

[David Holden <dh@iucr.org>]

On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 12:39 pm, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> > I recently got a reply from Stephen Timms MP (Minister responsible for
> > Intellectual property in UK). Suffice to say It was not very encouraging.
> >
> > It stated that the UK position was the result of a wide-ranging
> > consultation carried out in 2000 that supported clarification of the
> > current law and the continued restriction on patentability of "business
> > methods" software. It also said that the UK had been granting patents for
> > "software related inventions" for decades without hindering the
> > development of open source software.
>
> I'd suspect that this response letter was written not by Timms himself but
> by some ghostwriter at the UKPO.
>
> The consultation fraud perpetrated by the UKPO in 2000 is well known and
> described at
>
>       http://swpat.ffii.org/players/uk/
>
> Maybe you can still find a way to get a more direct contact to the
> concerned politicians.


Actually I made a mistake it was not from Timms but Lord Sainsbury (Private 
under secretary of state for science and innovation)

I'll try and get my MP to reply, thanks for the link.

        Dave.


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