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Monday, June 29, 2009

Single EU patent law good for US giants, bad for small EU firms

Brussels, 4 April 2007 -- EU Commissioner McCreevy today announced his plans for an EU-wide patent law. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, which represents more than 3,000 small-to-medium IT firms and 8,000 IT professionals, says that this proposal is based on flawed assumptions and will make it easier for large US companies to sue small European IT firms.

FFII President Pieter Hintjens explains, "The EU is following the US down the risky path of a central patent jurisdiction, when this experiment has failed miserably in the US." New studies to be presented at a conference organised by the FFII in Brussels in May, show that in all industries except pharmaceutics, the US patent system has slowed-down, not promoted, innovation.

"The Commission insults the many SMEs who participated in its Patent Consultation by claiming that they are uninformed when they say the patent system does not fit in their business model. Reducing financial burdens on venture capitalists, like in the US, would be much more fruitful than proposing to throw even more money at 'reeducating' companies to agree with the Commission's patent obsession," he added.

The Commission explains its patent fixation by noting that there is a strong correlation between its innovation indicators and patenting activity. Since these indicators are however partially based on patenting activity, the absence of such correlation would be most peculiar. Moreover, as any first year statistician knows: correlation doehttp://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Single_EU_patent_law_good_for_US_giants%2C_bad_for_small_EU_firmss not imply causation.

"There are also some positive notes. The Commission insists on independent judges, and recognises that the the patent system as it stands today is largely unsuited for SMEs. But its focus on patent litigation costs is like putting lipstick on a pig. Unless the quality problems in the European Patent Office's functioning are addressed, cheaper litigation will only make matters worse", Hintjens said.

He concluded, "Cheaper litigation by itself would merely result in a US-like litigation explosion, which is devastating for small companies. This is a high-risk experiment jeopardising the European software sector, which depends on SMEs. It's a mistake to launch this, without proper study, just as the EU economy is starting to beat the US economy."

... there are only three ways of doing this ...
... 1) to accept software patents as submissive sheeps ...
... demonstrating that europe is a collection of puppets of wall street and the US ...
... 2) rejecting software patents in the european community ...
... 3) not only rejecting software patents but also ...
... excluding from any public bid in the community ...
... any company that leverages software patents anywhere on the planet ...
... and the third solution is the one of a europe with balls ...

... software is everywhere in modern technology ...
... and software is science and mathematics ...
... admitting "monopoli" in science and math ...
... is like chopping the balls off the whole european industry now ...
... and in a few years to the whole european economy ...

... listening to the "servant" of the interest of the nazi bankers of wall street ...
... is just going to destroy europe ...
... europe wants to destroy its economy ...
... electing "puppets" and servants of foreign powers ? ...
... this used to be called "treason" ...

# posted by intcoex : 6:50 PM

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