[pp.int.general] Bullshit EU consultation

[Richard Stallman]

    The survey you mentioned is focused on the enforcement of immaterial
    rights (see IPRED ) and does not deal with patent rights itself. There
    is a second consultation dealing with this at the moment (
    http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2012/trade-secrets_en.htm
    ).

This survey does deal with patents -- it lists them in the questions.
The other survey deals with trade secrets, apparently, not with
patents.

    We need to raise awareness for the european immaterial rights
    legislation and lobby for a reform of copyright, patents and such.

No, that would be a disaster!  Any "reform" that tries to cover
both copyrights and patents at once would tend to make them more
similar, and that would probably be bad for both.

The idea that copyright law and patent law are one issue
is garbage.  Any project (survey, reform, whatever) based on that
assumption is Garbage In, Garbage Out.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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