draft call on europe's lawmakers

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

> At
> 
>       http://www.power-to-the-parliament.org/
> 
> you now find links to 3 documents which outline the draft demands of
> the FFII's eupat workgroup in detail:
> 
>        Put Parliaments in Charge of Legislation
>        http://a2e.de/ffii/epla/cpedu/parl
> 
>        Alternatives to Premature Judicial Centralisation
>        http://a2e.de/ffii/epla/cpedu/koord
> 
>        Privatize Examination, Make Bad Patenters Pay
>        http://a2e.de/ffii/epla/cpedu/exam

Plus now a short document on what can be done at the EPO level

         Bring the EPO under Control
         http://a2e.de/ffii/epla/cpedu/exam

at the beginning

The demands have been simplified and reordered.  They now read:

    We call on Europe's lawmakers to ensure that

    1. The European Patent Office [8]stop granting patents on software and
       business methods, stop lobbying for its supposedly independent judicial
       arm, and start following the lead of the national courts and the
       European Parliament;
    2. The European patent system be made as fast, cheap and unbureaucratic as
       possible under the conditions of the digital age; this could possibly 
be
       achieved by [9]privatizing examination and making bad patenters pay;
    3. As long as there is no constitutional framework with democratic
       lawmaking at the European level, [10]final decision power is not
       transferred to a European court; the national judicial systems must
       remain available as cheaper alternative paths with a corrective
       function;
    4. All statutory laws and rules applied by any new European supreme courts
       be subject to review by elected legislators; the signatory states 
should
       in such cases [11]transfer the related legislative power to the 
European
       Parliament, while assigning veto rights to a quorum of national
       parliaments;


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 Hartmut Pilch                            http://a2e.de/phm
 Vice president of the FFII               http://a2e.de/ffii
 Protecting the Knowledge Economy from Legal Over-Regulation