- From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:48:13 -0500
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(Forwarded from Patents list. Methinks the reason FICPI is getting more audacious of late is because they know they have to act fast, or opposition will make its voice heard even more loudly than it has been of late. -- Seth) -------- Original Message -------- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:16:00 +0100 (CET) From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de> To: patents@aful.org The world alliance of patent lawyer associations http://www.ficpi.org/ficpi/newsletters/51/PosPaperSPLT_1.html demands that Art 27 TRIPs may not and "was never meant to" be interpreted in a "restrictive" way, i.e. in a way that treats the concepts "invention", "technical", "industrial" etc as limitations on what can be patented. The new Substantive Patent Law Treaty, which is being prepared by WIPO, should, according to FICPI (and according to the US delegation at WIPO), impose worldwide patentabilty of anything useful. According to FICPI there is "no reason" to limit patentability, and in particular the ever-growing importance of the service sector should be taken account of by making patents available for this sector. It is interesting to see FICPI taking such extreme positions in public. Normally the tactic has been to continue using "industry" and "technical" in order to hide the real intentions. One may wonder why the FICPI resolution drafters believe that such hiding is less necessary now than a few years ago. -- Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-12789608 Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ 130,000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
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