CONTENT SYNDICATION
*ATOM* FEED:

CONTENT SYNDICATION
RSS 0.91 FEED:

BLOGROLL OPML:

Search in IPJUR.COM

BLOG@IP::JUR

Patent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.

Disclaimer & About This Website

Visit the archives

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

FFII Seeking "Dissolution of the European Patent Organisation".

"We collect here proposals for a reform of the patent examination system. In particular, FFII and others have endorsed proposals for privatisation of this system by careful distribution of burdens of proof. Such a reform would result in debureaucratisation and, by consequence, dissolution of the European Patent Organisation, which some have called "an intergovernmental creature that no longer has a place in today's European Union". A lean privatised patent examination system would, as a side effect, also solve the problems of the Community Patent. [...]"

[Permalink]

 

---

 

Your link to the EPO examination privatisation proposal site is broken.

http://wiki.ffii.org/PatexamReformEn

"Delusions of Grandeur" - no, just a single pragmatic proposal for liberalisation of the system to overcome the current inefficient state. In fact parts of the EPO process are already outsourced today. For instance you as a patent attorney. Or think of alternative and better patent information systems.

Slim organisation structures and a real market for patent related services. This is a vision. And the wiki page is a draft of reform ideas for EPO examination innovation in the light of the Lisboa Agenda.
 

# posted by André Rebentisch : 28 September, 2005 22:28

 

 

---

 

Do you understand what a wiki is?
 

# posted by g. : 29 September, 2005 12:34

 

 

---

 

@g: "Do you understand what a wiki is?"

Oh, yes, I think I do.

And I am still waiting for an "official" FFII statement to the effect that they dissociate from such posting ...

NB: on

http://wiki.ffii.org/FfiiprojNewsEn

we find

"2005-08-19 phm enhances patent examination reform proposal"

And

http://wiki.ffii.org/index.cgi?action=plugin&plugin_name=Changes

says

"PatexamReformEn phm Fri Aug 19 10:57:15 2005 GMT"

So, I think that such refections might be somehow related to Mr. Pilch, President of FFII.

Do you think I'm naive?

Axel H Horns
 

# posted by Axel H Horns : 29 September, 2005 14:25

 

 

---

 

I think this paper by Paul Geller contains interesting points:

http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~pgeller/patutopia.pdf

Also see: http://wiki.ffii.org/IndpropEn
 

# posted by Arend Lammertink : 29 September, 2005 15:25

 

Post a Comment

Visit the archives

< ? law blogs # >

Technorati Profile

BLOGROLL

Please read the Disclaimer & About This Website (Pflichtangaben gemäss TDG) section. Feel free to contact PA Axel H Horns via e-mail horns@ipjur.com. BEWARE: DO NOT SEND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION UNENCRYPTED VIA E-MAIL. USE OF ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. PA AXEL H HORNS IS PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR ENCRYPTED E-MAIL MESSAGES USING PGP OR PGP COMPATIBLE FORMATS. THE PGP PUBLIC KEY FOR PA AXEL H HORNS IS AVAILABLE HERE. THE GnuPG PUBLIC KEY FOR PA AXEL H HORNS IS AVAILABLE HERE. Dipl.-Phys. Axel H Horns is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney), European Patent Attorney as well as European Trade Mark Attorney. In particular, he is Member of:
	VPP