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#title: EU Patent Movement meeting top politicians in Ischia 2003/10/05-7

#descr: The EU patent movement, led by Frits Bolkestein's DG Internal Market,
met near Napoli (Naples) on October 5-7, discussing among themselves
and with EU politicians from the Italian Presidency, the Commission
and the Parliament subjects such as the limits of patentability. 
FFII/Eurolinux was excluded from participation, letters asking to be
invited to panels not answered.  Many panels had economic subjects,
but the expertise came from patent lawyers only, not from economists.

#Wvp: A list of well known figures of the EU patent movement and a few more
or less critical law scholars.  The presence of a patent lawyers from
Merck, Sharp & Dohme, a company in which Bolkestein has been deeply
involved, may be a mere coincidence.

#ale: including simulation of legislative projects, e.g. limitation of
patent duration to 5 years on %(q:high tech).

#oPf: Tuesday's Program: Limits of Patent Protection for Software etc

#pka: Panel Discussion mainly between protagonists of software patentability

#rtt: One of the authors of this study presented patent-critical views on
the software panel of the Ischia conference.

#rls: Ask Prof. Hugenholtz for his script.

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