Re: [ga] Re: [Ecommerce] EUParl votes against mutual recognition of patents by EU member states]

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. Dierker and all,

Well less than ethical and/or creditable diplomats often talk out
of both sides of their mouth's simultaneously, much like the vast
majority of lawyers..  I guess P.T. Barium had it right when
he uttered; "diplomats and politicians are like lawyers, they all
lie, they just do so with remarkable dexterity".

Hugh Dierker wrote:

> --
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> Funny but some might think the EU can speak differently out of each side of their mouth simultaneously.
>
>   Vietnam heads in the right direction in protecting IPR
> Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam
> Vietnam is heading in the right direction in constructing and protecting intellectual property rights (IPR), said Alain Cany, Chairman of the European Chamber ...
>
>   e
>
> Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Michelle and all,
>
> I wonder if the EU will similarly do so with Trademarks?
>
> Michelle Childs wrote:
>
> > EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VOTES AGAINST
> > MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF PATENTS
> > BY THE EU MEMBER STATES
> >
> > Anti-software patent campaigners successfully opposed a proposal
> > by a pro-patent MEP that "would result in a flood of patent suits
> > all over Europe, lower quality standards, and ever more software patents"
> >
> > Strasbourg (March 15, 2006) -- The new round of the European debate on
> > patent policy has started with a first victory for anti-software patent
> > campaigners. A majority of the European Parliament today voted against
> > calling on the European Commission for a legislative proposal to stipulate
> > the mutual recognition of national patents by the 25 member states of the
> > EU. Such mutual recognition would make the patents that the national patent
> > office of any EU country grants enforceable against companies in all other
> > member states.
> >
> > The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) and Florian
> > Mueller, the founder of the award-winning NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign,
> > jointly lobbied MEPs to vote against the related passage of a proposed
> > resolution, stressing that the mutual recognition of national patents "would
> > result in a flood of patent suits all over Europe, lower quality standards,
> > and ever more software patents", among other things because patent
> > applicants would "shop around" to find patent offices that are most willing
> > to grant patents which would then be valid in the entire EU.
> >
> > The call for mutual recognition of patents that had been sponsored by Klaus
> > Heiner Lehne MEP. Lehne, a German conservative, holds a job as a lobbyist
> > with the law firm Taylor Wessing, which handles many cases of patent
> > litigation especially in his home town of Dusseldorf and represents large
> > corporations in many areas of commercial law:
> > http://wiki.ffii.org/KlausHeinerLehneEn
> >
> > Mueller called the outcome of today's vote in the European Parliament
> > "excellent news from Strasbourg". His recently started blog
> > (http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/florian-mueller-blog) also explains the
> > voting mechanism, a so-called split vote, that prevented the text from going
> > through as proposed by Lehne. Mueller published large parts of a memorandum
> > that Lehne had written to other EU politicians late last year and in which
> > the MEP claimed that the mutual recognition of national patents would make
> > Europe more competitive. By calling on the European Commission to make a
> > proposal for the mutual recognition of patents, the European Parliament
> > would not have taken a final legislative decision today, but such a call
> > "would have been a disappointing start for [anti-software patent
> > campaigners] with respect to the EU's new patent policy initiative, and it
> > would have had negative effects for the future", Mueller added.
> >
> > Brussels-based Benjamin Henrion of the FFII welcomes the European
> > Parliament's decision because this way the parliament "keeps all options
> > open for the future of the European patent system" in light of the European
> > Commission's ongoing consultation on patent policy, which is preparatory to
> > new legislative proposals that EU observers expect the Commission to put
> > forward after the summer. Henrion said it would have been "a pity if Lehne's
> > proposal had slipped through as one of 67 items of a resolution on the EU's
> > Lisbon Agenda for innovation and economic policy".
> >
> > Rufus Pollock, director of FFII UK, calls on companies and individuals who
> > are concerned about software patents to participate in the EU's consultation
> > on patent policy: "Today was a great result for us, but there will be many
> > more and bigger challenges ahead as the Commission prepares new proposals
> > concerning patent policy. It's very important that many companies and
> > individuals write to the Commission before the deadline on March 31.
> > Answering the Commission's questionnaire
> > (http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/indprop/patent/consultation_en.ht
> > m) is tricky, but the FFII has set up a Web site
> > (http://consultation.ffii.org/Downloads) that provides further explanation,
> > or people can also use Florian's position paper
> > (http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/florian-mueller-blog/position-paper/)
> > and submit it in their name."
> >
> > REFERENCES
> >
> > Today's resolution of the European Parliament was based on motion
> > B6-0162/2006, which had been jointly introduced by the chairmen of the three
> > largest groups in the parliament (EPP-ED, PES, ALDE).
> >
> > At the request of EPP-ED and ALDE, paragraph 43 was subject to a split vote.
> > The proposed text without the words "small" and "mutual recognition" was
> > carried, while a majority voted against proposals to insert those words.
> >
> > BACKGROUND INFORMATION
> >
> > FFII: see www.ffii.org
> > Florian Mueller: http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/florian-mueller.html
> >
> > CONTACT INFORMATION
> >
> > Benjamin Henrion, FFII Brussels, +32-2-4148403, bhenrion@xxxxxxxx
> > Florian Mueller, +49-8151-21088, fmueller.nosoftwarepatents@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > --
> > Michelle Childs -Head of European Affairs
> > Consumer Project on Technology in London
> > 24, Highbury Crescent, London, N5 1RX,UK.
> > Tel:+44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252.
> > Mob:+44(0)790 386 4642. Fax: +44(0)207 354 0607
> > http://www.cptech.org
> >
> > Consumer Project on Technology in Washington, DC
> > 1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA .Tel.:
> > +1.202.332.2670,Fax: +1.202.332.2673
> >
> > Consumer Project on Technology in Geneva
> > 1 Route des Morillons, CP 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
> > Tel: +41 22 791 6727
> >
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> Regards,
>
> --
> Jeffrey A. Williams
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Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
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IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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