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Story: Patent restart request ratified

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Hugo Lueders and the EC should consider the following: if the role of a strong IP as an engine of European growth is that important for the EU to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010 then...

1) if they don't understand copyright laws then they shouldn't pretent that software patent laws are the best thing since sliced bread because if they do their ignorance is showing since copyright laws already protect IP and thus enable a strong IP

and 2) how on earth could a strong IP help the economy of the EU if the rights and revenues that come with such an IP, by means of software patents, are mostly transported overseas?

Really, software patents will only transfer already existing IP rights and revenues protected by copyright laws straight into the hands of a few big companies mostly based overseas because such companies are already granted thousands upon thousands of software patents that are of questionable content. Anyone who doesn't see that is either payed for or has no clue. In all such cases such persons shouldn't be allowed to stay in a position of power for a minute longer.

Also, perhaps the US wishes very much so that the EU will make the same mistake the US has made in order to give US based companies a head start so that US based companies will largely own (and thus control) the dynamic knowledge-driven economy of the EU by 2010. Think about that for a while. Certainly if you're payed to think. And most certainly if you're payed to think on behave of many others that in mysterious ways have put you in that position of power.

Sigh. Here's a chance for the EU to gain the upperhand themselves yet a handfull of people (Hugo Lueders and the EC) are willing to just give that away along with throwing away the principels of democracy they claim to stand for for nothing but the upholding of some lousy burocratic procedures or other insignifant motivations like, perhaps, self interest. How many tax dollars do these black-or-white thinking people take home every month as salary? Because I can think of a few others who are just as able to rubberstamp documents and guided by nothing else then black-or-white reasoning for a whole lot less salary each month.

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