EPP Hearing "Patents on Computer-Implemented Inventions"
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Announcement of a hearing organised by the pro-patent group within EPP. Initially it was conceived as a hearing of small and medium enterprises, but in the end mainly patent lobbyists were invited as speakers, and the "coordinator" Lehne concluded with one-sided statements in favor of this group.
Date
2nd June 2005
Location
European Parliament
Program
- EPP-ED GROUP HEARING PATENTS ON COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED INVENTIONS Thursday, 2 June 2005 9.30 - 12.30 Room A 5 E 2 Brussels Programme Chaired by: Hans-Peter MAYER, MEP Vice President of Working Group D Interpretation: FR DE IT EN ES NL EL PT SV HU
9.30 - 9.35: Presentation, Hans-Peter MAYER, Vice President, Working Group D
9.35 - 9.50: Introduction, Piia-Noora KAUPPI, EPP-ED shadow rapporteur, Committee on Legal Affairs
9.50 - 10.25: Panel 1: Experts (8 minutes each)
- Robert LIND, Cornell University
- Brian KAHIN, University of Michigan
- Theodora KARAMANLI, European Patent Office
Jurgen BETTEN, Betten & Resch, Munich
10.25 - 10.50: Questions & Answers
10.50 - 11.05: Panel 2: Industry (5 minutes each)
- Kai BRANDT, Siemens
- Lauri KIVINEN, Nokia
- David AXMARK, MySQL
11.05 - 11.30: Questions & Answers
11.30 - 11.50: Panel 3: Interest Groups (5 minutes each)
- Fredrik EGRELIUS, ACEA
- Maria CIMAGLIA, UEAPME
- Hugo LUEDERS, CompTIA
- Oliver LORENTZ, EMCITA
11.50 - 12.15: Questions & Answers
12.15 - 12.30: Conclusions, Klaus-Heiner LEHNE, EPP-ED coordinator, Committee on Legal Affairs
Original URL
http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2005/bxl0601/epp050602.pdf
Recordings
Partial voice recording in original language
