On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 10:29, xdrudis at tinet.org wrote: > Deleting Art52.3 from European Patent Convention (EPC) is an option, yes. [snip] I think tinkering with a bad law to make it marginally less bad is worse than doing nothing at all. If a law is going to be bad, I don't want to remove the catalyst of its eventual self-destruction!