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- From: Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>
- To: Brandon Shalton <brandon@fightthepatent.com>
- Cc: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] EPO grants Acacia patent on video streaming]
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:09:36 +0100 (CET)
> For companies that have been served with a court notice, I provide prior art
> finds for free.
In Europe we rather need some voluntary help in suing this patent invalid
due to lack of patentable subject matter / technical character. The
generic computer system that is claimed is of course well known, and the
rest of what acacia allegedly invented consists of nothing but computer
programs, calculation rules or whatever you name it. Maybe it would also
be necessary to organise some kind of demo outside the court, so that the
judiciary may know which is the authority that it should follow, if it
can't just plainly apply the law.
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
300,000 votes 2000 firms against software patents http://noepatents.org/
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