Re: [Patents] conference "patents why and to do what?" BXL 2004-03-11..3

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

regarding my participation in the first discussion:

I pointed out that:

- Sueur's support for software patenting assumes that only "good" patents
would be awarded, but the the system has never exhibited such behaviour.
Hence the quality should be improved first, before discussing extension.

- Vidon criticize the EU community patent arguing that it will favor
invasion of non-european patents.  He should then logically be against
software patents which will have the same effect.  But isn't he really
more worried about increased competition of anglo-saxon professionnals
in his own business as IP consultant.

Bernard

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:18:49PM +0100, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> At
> 
>       http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/deso03/
> 
> you now find summaries of contributions to a conference where Bernard and 
> I, among others, spent 3 days last week.
> 
> -- 
> 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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