Germany & Patents

Stefano Maffulli stef at zoomata.com
Fri Nov 23 08:59:50 UTC 2001


On Friday 23 November 2001 09:43, Loic Dachary wrote:
> 	I'm a bit confused here, does someone have precise information on
> this subject ?

this is the comment that appeared on the swpat mailing lits at aful.org:

> From: PILCH Hartmut <phm at a2e.de>
> Under
>
>   http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2826171,00.html
>   Germany speaks out for open source
>
> you find another clueless article on the recent German study. A
> pseudo-debate about "maintaining the conservative EPO practise" vs
> "extending patent laws to adjust to US practise" is under way, and
> European journalists, are copying/translating/transcribing press releases
> exchanged between patent movement activists wearing the hats of
> governments, corporations or law firms.
>
> That is how the invisible hand in the newsmedia economy, especially on the
> Internet, works:  it punishes real research and rewards fast thoughtless
> "copywriting".  The iron rule of such copywriting is
>
> 	Thou shalt not reveal thy source
>
> Thus you find the same junk all over the news media, without a link to the
> original press release, but each of them hoping to attract some hits to
> some advertiser's page.
>
> Given these iron rules, we must be glad that the media treat the subject
> at all.
>
> More real information about this is being built up at
>
> 	http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/bmwi-fhgmpi01/
>
> But never expect this link to be given by any of the upcoming clueless big
> media reports.



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