<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/plain; charset=utf-8">

#tWi: Unfortunately most of this, like the other CEC papers, is available only in PDF form.  We have however extracted a %(st:raw text) from which a critique may eventually be written.

#Pea: Preface

#descr: Under the order of (british) patent lawyers in charge of software patentability project at the European Commission's Industrial Property Unit, a group of anonymous british experts with an apparent patent community background wrote this summary report of 1500 submissions made to the Commission in response to its %(e:consultation paper).  This summary report presents a selective section of the papers, apparently disregarding all non-english contributions and everything that does not fit the general aim of making the 95% software patentability critics look minoritarian by attributing them to the %(q:opensource movement) and reducing them to fit a patent movement cliché.  By hiding behind this report from anonymous %(q:independent contractors), the European Commission's patentability project leaders were able to avoid responding to any of the published submissions or the arguments made therein.  The most interesting arguments were in fact distorted or not even mentioned by this summary report.

#title: PbT Consultants 2001: Summary Report on EU Software Patentability Consultation

# Local Variables: ;
# coding: utf-8 ;
# srcfile: /ul/prg/src/mlht/app/swpat/eukonsult00.el ;
# mailto: mlhtimport@a2e.de ;
# login: phm ;
# passwd: YYYYY ;
# feature: swpatdir ;
# dok: eukonsult00-softanalyse ;
# txtlang: en ;
# multlin: t ;
# End: ;