Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 27, 2004 09:28 PM
There will be several events and a conference this year about the software patent issue in Europe. See http://plone.ffii.org Especially it would be very helpful to raise the issue at Brussels at a conference in. A FFII speaker will be at Fosdem 04. It would be very nice to have you at our April Conference/Convention Between 2004-04-13 02:00 PM and 2004-04-15 10:00 PM http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2004/test04/index.en<nobr>.<wbr></nobr> html
From my experience I would rather say that MS XML patent is very weak and even fails to McCarthy-style limitation guidelines. It is obviously non patentable under current legislation, because it is so badly written! I could pass the EPO but it has to be written in different style. So I would expect to get rid of it, because it will not be granted by the Office very soon.
Also I remind you of Bolkestein ecc. they would enforce free license obligations.
Are you danish? Perhaps you would like to join dk-parl@ffii.org over http://aktiv.ffii.org
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 27, 2004 09:28 PMEspecially it would be very helpful to raise the issue at Brussels at a conference in. A FFII speaker will be at Fosdem 04. It would be very nice to have you at our April Conference/Convention Between 2004-04-13 02:00 PM and 2004-04-15 10:00 PM
http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2004/test04/index.en<nobr>.<wbr></nobr> html
From my experience I would rather say that MS XML patent is very weak and even fails to McCarthy-style limitation guidelines. It is obviously non patentable under current legislation, because it is so badly written! I could pass the EPO but it has to be written in different style. So I would expect to get rid of it, because it will not be granted by the Office very soon.
Also I remind you of Bolkestein ecc. they would enforce free license obligations.
Are you danish? Perhaps you would like to join dk-parl@ffii.org over http://aktiv.ffii.org
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