#Den: The WIPO has got it trough that April 26th will be celebrateted under the hood of the United Nations as the %(q:day of intellectual property). With the myth of %(q:intellectual property) the WIPO supports attempts from the beginning to unchain the patent law from its social-economic justification and form it into a self purpose. #DMh: The WTO bound TRIPs treaty of 1993 requests patentability on %(q:all areas on the field of technology) and a world wide obligatory minimum patent duration of 20 years. Newer WIPO treaty drafts like the SPLT do leave out the as a limit interpreteable word %(q:technology) and do request unlimited patentability in conjunction with a request for a strong limit on the reasonalbe requirements on the quality of a patents. # Local Variables: ; # coding: utf-8 ; # srcfile: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/phm/sys/mlht.el ; # mailto: mlhtimport@ffii.org ; # login: astohrl ; # passwd: YYYYY ; # feature: swpatdir ; # dok: swpatwipo ; # txtlang: en ; # multlin: t ; # End: ;