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Saturday, February 17, 2007

President of FFII Wants To See New Laws And New Institutions.

Some of the readers of this Blog might

remember that last year Mr. Pieter Hintjens, President of FFII e.V., had registered a domain name "epomustgo.org", installing a wiki under that address which was, however, removed a short time after the registration completed. Obviously there had been some internal discussions within FFII as to whether or not it would make sense to publicly demand dissolvement of the European Patent Office.

Now we are reading

in an interview with Mr. Hintjens (emphasis added by me, AHH):

"[...] The battle will continue until we have new laws that clarify what can and cannot be patented, and new institutions that make those laws work. The current patent system dates from 1972, it's outdated, and hardly compatible with the EU. [...]"

They obviously keep on dreaming of replacing EPO by something different. And, on the

EUPACO website, indication is given

to the effect that:

"[...] A new European patent system should be an EU institution and should fall under proper democratic control. EPLA, the main EPO/Commission proposal, would move the EPO outside EU oversight, and although it contains some possibly useful elements, needs critical review. [...]"

Further material from

EPACO-1 held in Brussels on Janurary 24, 2007, is available

there.

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# posted by Pieter Hintjens : 25 February, 2007 18:24