[Swpat] Fwd: Connections to opponents of the European Patent Court

[Ole Tange]

Scary: Irerne mener at patentdomstolen er bedre en den irske domstols
praksis for softwarepatenter.

/Ole


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Antoin O Lachtnain <thisisantoin at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: Connections to opponents of the European Patent Court
To: Ole Tange <ole at tange.dk>
Cc: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>


Hi Ole,

Sorry for taking so long to get back.

On the core issue of software patents, the thinking among the experts
I have contacted here is that avoiding and minimising software patents
has better prospects in an EU patent court than in an Irish court
which is already permissive to software patents.

The referendum failing would probably be worse than the referendum
succeeding. For that reason, this is probably a 'pass' for us at
Digital Rights Ireland (http://www.digitalrights.ie/)

There is certainly a possibility of the referendum failing in Ireland.
We have a lot of very close-run referenda on Europe as you have
probably read. Getting this referendum passed in Ireland will be
difficult for the government.

Best

Antoin.

.
--
ex muris - for a complex world.
www.exmuris.com antoin at exmuris.com



On 26 May 2014, at 21:58, Ole Tange <ole at tange.dk> wrote:

> Hi Michael.
>
> Paul Hardy from GNU.org suggests you might have political contacts in Ireland.
>
> Software patents are bad. The EU-Patent court will probably allow for
> software patents => EU-Patent court is bad.
>
> Yesterday we had a referendum on the UPC and unfortunately Denmark
> voted yes. Ireland will also have a referendum at some unspecified
> time, but it will be good to get things going - the sooner the better.
> A lot of the material we used in Denmark can be re-used in Ireland, a
> lot of the setup could be copied to Ireland, and we could learn from
> the mistakes we did in DK.
>
> I would therefore like to get in touch with people who are willing to
> work on this.
>
> If you know any Irish that are not fond of software patents, could you
> poke them and ask them to get in contact with me?
>
>
> /Ole