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Wednesday, June 06, 2007IBM Now Partnering With FFII?From the EUPACO website:"[...] The European Green Alliance, IBM and EUPACO present the first in a series of briefings for key European Parliamentarians on the future of the European patent system.Mr. Hintjens is used, on the one hand, to stress that EUPACO shall not be seen as identical with FFII. But, on the other hand, he actually is President of FFII. Has Mr. Hintjens developed a split personality so far? I don't think so. He appears to be quite consistent in his positions within FFII and within EUPACO, respectively. Recently I had given some comments  on the new strategy of FFII and I understand that IBM obviously is interested keeping some sort of a dialogue with a more pragmatic FFII. But what the heck makes IBM partnering with FFII that way? Of course the patent system as it stands is susceptible to improvements and it should be improved e.g. in terms of patent quality or reducing backlogs and processing time. But IBM's way of dealing with FFII might by risky. Mr. Hintjens and his co-activists are by far not dumb guys. IBM must be on the guard not just to be instrumentalised by FFII, in a first phase, as a door-opener and trust agent, facilitating contacts to lawmakers, then to be shrugged off in a second phase when FFII reaches through to press for certain destructive maximalist options like the the dissolution of the EPO or the like.I'm puzzled. And I'm not the only one, see Mr. Joff Wild's comments in his Blog on the IAM website.Recent resolution passed by the European Parliament might well be received as a stern warning to all players on the political stage of Intellectual Property: A body where a resolution demanding patents "not monopolising knowledge in the field of innovation" gets a majority might well be able to cultivate further anti-IP positions in many unforeseeable ways. And, a statement like "The patent system, and the need for a balance between the disclosure of inventions and rights that are granted is of vital importance to the European economy" appears to be FFII-speak demanding some sort of weakening of the patent system.Let's wait and see. I'm confident that Mr. Dave Kappos of IBM will do the right job in this perilous situation. Details of the fields of activity of Dr. Ingrid Schneider are availabe here [In German only, sorry]. She has extended experiences in political consulting concerning policy analysis, national and supra-national governance (in particular with regard to the EU), innovation and law, juridification, regulatory agencies, patent law, social studies of science, technology and innovation, technology assessment of biomedical technologies.Technorati Tags: Patents
Well ... please have e.g. a look at http://www.ipjur.com/2005/09/ffii-seeking-dissolution-of-european.php3 or think of the epomustgo.org affair of Mr. Pieter Hintjens ... http://www.ipjur.com/2007/02/president-of-ffii-wants-to-see-new-laws.php3 http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=epomustgo.org&type=domain
Well, privatisation of the examination of patents would not signify the end of the EPO. The EPO would remain an institution which would be responsible for manage the storage of patents. One of the problem with the current patent system is the lack of incentives for the layman to break invalid patents. For the time being, you need to have a lot of financial and human ressources, and an interest to do it. And it is true that the EPOrg is a real monster sitting somewhere outside any parliamentary control, and that should end one day.
"epomustgo.org affair of Mr. Pieter Hintjens" Welche Affäre? Es ist vollkommen legitim zu überlegen wie sich das EPA abwickeln oder reformieren lässt um einer EUPO Platz zu schaffen.
The FFII presidency is one of the many hats I wear. I am also the CEO of iMatix, a modest investor in several other startups, the founder of Esoma, and the founder of EUPACO. There is often conflict between these roles. That's the reality of a complex life. EUPACO is not an FFII forum, though we will take credit for it if pressed. EUPACO is a forum for anyone who has sensible ideas for fixing the - surely obvious - crisis facing the patent system. Mr Horns, I invited you to EUPACO-2, and I cordially invite you to any and all future EUPACO events. Tell us how to make the discussion fair and open. Bring facts to the table. You will find the debate fresh, and useful, and free of the usual polarisation. The basis for my faith in EUPACO - and evidently the faith of many others - is the principle that debate and data are a powerful combination to understanding the truth of things. The basis for my investment in the FFII - and it's a non-trivial amount of time - is my sense that the FFII echoes my basic reactions, as a businessman in the IT sector, when faced with the facts. If the FFII is wrong, in small or large ways, I fully expect EUPACO to prove it, and to come up with better answers.
The FFII presidency is one of the many hats I wear. I am also the CEO of iMatix, a modest investor in several other startups, the founder of Esoma, and the founder of EUPACO. These different hats sometimes conflict. That's the reality of life. My opinions, though consistent, remain my own. EUPACO is not an FFII forum, though we will take credit for it if pressed. EUPACO is a forum for anyone who has sensible ideas for fixing the - surely obvious - crisis facing the patent system. Mr Horns, I invited you to EUPACO-2, and I cordially invite you to any and all future EUPACO events. Tell us how to make the discussion fair and open. Bring facts to the table. You will find the debate fresh, and useful, and free of the usual polarisation. The basis for my faith in EUPACO - and evidently the faith of many others - is the principle that debate and data are a powerful combination to understanding the truth of things. The basis for my investment in the FFII - and it's a non-trivial amount of time - is my sense that the FFII echoes my basic reactions, as a businessman in the IT sector, when faced with the facts. If the FFII is wrong, in small or large ways, I fully expect EUPACO to prove it, and to come up with better answers. Post a Comment
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