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#title: EICTA calls on Commission, Council to Kill Parliament Vote

#descr: EICTA, a lobbying group representing most large telecommunication and
consumer electronics companies in Europe as well as some SMEs has
published a press release which literally echoes the letter signed by
CEOs of Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel, Philips and Siemens earlier this
month, complaining about the European Parliament's amendments to the
proposed software patent directive and asking the Commission and the
Council to undo these amendments and immediately go on a confrontation
course with the Parliament.  The Council did not follow this call
during its meeting of today but postponed the debate to next spring,
when the Irish presidency takes over.  EICTA expresses dismay at this
postponement and directs demands of %(q:the industry) to the Irish
presidency as well as to the Belgian government.   The latter demands
are based on the false claim that the Belgian EICTA member
organisation AGORIA represents Belgian SMEs.

#rWe: Press Release

#Ai3: EICTA Press Briefing 2003-11-26

#Ilf: The EICTA press release can be found via

#ers: Please look for press releases 2003.

#uhm: This press release uses wordings from a %(tl:letter signed by the CEOs
of large telecommunication and consumer electronics companies).

#urW: Industry Calls on Council to Correct Damage Done by the European
Parliament -- European R&D Will Be Jeopardised If CII Patents Are
Eliminated

#WWt: For further information,

#hri: Leo Baumann was until recently the assistant of %(AN), bavarian party
colleague working closely with shadow rapporteur %(JW), and thereby
influential on much of the policy formulation in the EPP (conservative
block in Europarl).

#ocs: The argumentation of EICTA statements on patent policy usually relies
on no evidence, no reasoning, only false representation claims --
corporate patent lawyers masquerading as %(q:the industry).

#jWs: EICTA, the European ICT and consumer electronics association, together
with AGORIA, the Belgian multi sector federation for the technology
industry would like to invite you to our joint press briefing over
breakfast on the Commission's proposal on a directive on the
patentability of computer-implemented inventions, taking place in
Brussels on 26 November 2003 from 9.00 until 10.30 am (Diamant
Building, 80 BD. Reyers).

#2me: The Competitiveness Council will discuss the Commission's proposal on
26/27 November. The Council will react to the damaging amendments
proposed by the European Parliament in September 2003. Given the
negative effect which the Parliament's recommendations would have on
European research and development as well as competitiveness, industry
expects the Competitiveness Council to express its concern over recent
developments which are contrary to the goals of eEurope and the Lisbon
process.

#WeW: Tim Frain, Director of IPR Nokia will explain the impact, the
directive will have on European Industry in terms of R&D and
competitiveness.

#ywn: Roland Lousky, Vice-President %(IC) will present the issue from an SME
perspective.

#sfW: Press briefing on the Commission's proposal on a directive on the
patentability of computer-implemented inventions in Brussels on 26
November 2003. Venue: EICTA, Diamant Building, 80 BD. Reyers.

#WWD: Venue: EICTA, Diamant Building, 80 BD. Reyers

#rrm: Programme:

#WIr: Welcome by Leo Baumann, EICTA and Filip Geerts, AGORIA

#tWW: Introduction into the topic: Tim Frain, Director of IPR Nokia

#pWe: Commission proposal, implementing the status quo of EPO practice in
European law

#ery: importance of the directive for the European Economy as a whole

#rsh: answers to concerns raised in the debate

#eto: co-existence of open source and patents,  patents as addition to
copyright etc.

#sdt: consequences of the amendments proposed by the European Parliament in
first reading

#Wtk: Patents on CII from an SMEs perspective: Roland Louski, Vice-President
%(IC)

#dss: Q&A session

#riW: end of programme, possibility for one-to-one discussions

#nWe: A company focussing on enforcement of copyright in digital
environments, presents itself as %(q:your one-stop site for
registration and clearance of intellectual property).

#Wi0: Roland Lousky, whom EICTA presents as its SME representative, is a
lawyer working for the IPR clearance company info2clear.  Lousky has
written french articles on EU legislation in legal journals, of which
one titled %(TT), published 2001-01-19 in the french law journal
%(DT), is cited here.

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