Fwd: France is officially opposing the directive proposal.

[Alessandro Rubini]

> From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang at inria.fr>
> To: Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis at tinet.org>,
> Cc: patents at aful.org
> Subject: Re: [Patents] state of the patent in europe?
> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 07:43:34 +0100
>  
> 
> France is officially opposing the directive proposal.
> 
> see
> http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/cgi-bin/industrie/sommaire/comm/comm.cgi?COM_ID=1562&_Action=200
> 
> this press release, in French, contains references to letters sents by
> the French minister in charge to the 2 commissioners involved.
> 
> Now we have to get a similar result in some other countries...
>  ...  with official government statements.
> 
> It can be  blocked at the minister level.
> 
> Bernard