Re: [Patents] AU US FTA & Swpat

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> >>>>   http://kwiki.ffii.org/Ausfta04En
> >
> I read it all. 
> The article by Ross Gittins is a newspaper article, and ...

Yes, but you must have overlooked the quotes and analysis at the end.

What is important is that AUSFTA pushes for inflationist interpretations
of Art 27 TRIPs and makes it difficult to move back on such
interpretations once they are adopted by caselaw.  It locks Australia into 
software patentability and into a lot of other achievements of the IPR 
lobby of recent years.

Claims by prime minister Howard that the opponents of AUSFTA want to
change patent law are very similar to claims of Malcolm Harbour and other
EU politicians about the European Parliament's decision of last september.

And if you read the advertisement of the AU trade ministery itself, it is 
clear that they are putting chapter 17 into the agreement with the 
explicit purpose of pushing IPR lobby interests on Australia.

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