Re: [Patents] privatize examination, make bad patenters pay

[Alberto Barrionuevo <abarrio@ffii.org>]

El lun, 13-11-2006 a las 18:44 +0100, PILCH Hartmut escribió:
> I'd be interested to hear what you think about the following part of the
> proposed Call for Action:
> 
>     We are worried because
> 
>       1. The patent granting process remains slow, expensive and 
> inefficient; a
>          rapidly growing stream of broad monopoly claims with falsely 
> presumed
>          validity is burdening innovation worldwide;

In my last conference about patents, I shared the place with Jörg
Macheck, director from the EPO. He recognized that currently "CII"
patent applications takes about 6 years (!) to get examined and rejected
or granted.

The obvious reasoning of this fact is that software developers
infringing any software patent application should wait 6 years before to
release their software in a way to be sure not to infringe possible
patents.

Non sense,
  Alberto.