dutch take strong stance on software-patents
the dutch parliament members have made a decision today that software-patents in the netherlands shall either remain banned, and the law be cleared up in this respect, or subject to a scrutiny that shall be strict enough to eliminate most of the 30,000 "garbage patents" (as the meeting report calls it!) currently granted by the european patent office.
Got a reference? On 16 Feb 2001, at 11:20, Tom wrote:
the dutch parliament members have made a decision today that software-patents in the netherlands shall either remain banned, and the law be cleared up in this respect, or subject to a scrutiny that shall be strict enough to eliminate most of the 30,000 "garbage patents" (as the meeting report calls it!) currently granted by the european patent office.
sparky wrote:
the dutch parliament members have made a decision today that software-patents in the netherlands shall either remain banned, and the law be cleared up in this respect, or subject to a scrutiny that shall be strict enough to eliminate most of the 30,000 "garbage patents" (as the meeting report calls it!) currently granted by the european patent office.
Got a reference?
posted to discussie@opensource.nl by Luuk van Dijk who, I think, attended the hearing. note that no law or such has been passed so far, the MPs had a hearing to make up their mind, and among others, free software people had been invited. I can dig out the full mail, if you want it.
On 19 Feb 2001, at 13:55, Tom wrote:
sparky wrote:
the dutch parliament members have made a decision today that software-patents in the netherlands shall either remain banned, and the law be cleared up in this respect, or subject to a scrutiny that shall be strict enough to eliminate most of the 30,000 "garbage patents" (as the meeting report calls it!) currently granted by the european patent office.
Got a reference?
posted to discussie@opensource.nl by Luuk van Dijk who, I think, attended the hearing. note that no law or such has been passed so far, the MPs had a hearing to make up their mind, and among others, free software people had been invited.
I can dig out the full mail, if you want it.
If it's in Dutch I won't be able to read it. If it's in English, sure.
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