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- From: Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>
- To: "Brenno J.S.A.A.F. de Winter" <brenno@dewinter.com>
- Cc: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Publishing patents
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:41:26 +0100 (CET)
> - The EPO is no longer publishing full patent information, using
> DRM (password protected PDF files) and incomplete publication
> to protect its proprietary database vending partners, thus
> making the FFII Software Patent Statistics
> http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/stats/
> of last year incomplete.
>
> 1. Doest this mean ordinary people cannot get to the patent information
> any more?
No, it just becomes a bit more difficult.
Meanwhile there is again some hope that we can still make our patent
statistics useful. But the policy of password-protecting PDF files
as well as various other obstructionist policies on the EPO and other PTO
websites obviously do raise the questions that you have asked.
--
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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