[ffii] US-Anhörungen zur Patentinflation (fwd)

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:54:52 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
To: neues@ffii.org
Subject: [ffii] US-Anhörungen zur Patentinflation

Unter

  http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20020208S0079

  U.S. Patent Debate to Pit IP Rights vs. Competition

wird von den bevorstehenden Anhörung for der amerikanischen
Bundeshandelskommission (Federal Trade Commission) berichtet.
Zu diesen Anhörungen kommt es deshalb, weil Wettbewerbshüter
sich sorgen um die überhandnehmende Patentierung und ihre
negativen Auswirkungen auf die Offenheit von Märkten machen:

 The debate has been fueled, current and former government
 officials said during the first hearing Wednesday (Feb. 6),
 by growing tensions between intellectual-property (IP)
 rights holders and the antitrust enforcers seeking to
 promote competition in technology markets. Those markets,
 including electronics, computing and biotechnology, are
 driving the global economy as traditional manufacturing and
 even services begin to fade and the much-heralded
 "knowledge-based economy" takes root.

Der Präsident des US-Patentamtes wehrt sich gegen Bestrebungen, die
strengen Patentierbarkeitsregeln der 70er Jahre hinsichtlich Software und
anderen immaterielen Gegenständen wieder einzuführen.

 Critics have long pointed to the expansion of IP rights to
 cover ubiquitous technologies such as software code as a
 recipe for disaster. Powerful corporations could seize
 control of the underlying ideas that gave rise to
 algorithms, they warned, giving them monopolies that would
 stifle innovation. These concerns in part helped fuel the
 movement toward open-source software.

 But defenders of the patent system downplayed those
 concerns. "The entry of patent law into these areas was
 greeted with predictions of disaster," said James Rogan,
 director of the U.S. patent office. "Yet the United States
 is the international leader in [software] and other
 technological areas."

 Added Rogan, "A return by competition regulators to viewing
 IP rights with a 1970s-era suspicion would risk interfering
 with these market-based incentives to innovate."

Einige Wissenschaftler sind weiterhin fleißig dabei, die Wirkungen dieser
"marktbasierten Anreize" zu studieren:

 Meanwhile, the impact of the U.S. patent system on
 innovation is being studied by the National Academy of
 Science. The academy is expected to issue a report shortly.

-- 
Hartmut Pilch                   http://offen.ffii.org/ffii/Members/phm/
Schutz der Innovation vor der Patentinflation:   http://swpat.ffii.org/
100K Stimmen 300 Firmen gegen Logikpatente:  http://www.noepatents.org/


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