Re: Commons debate on patent bill yesterday

Just to emphasise, before everyone spends too much time wading into the 
full text of the debate:


(i) The Patents Defence Union people (aka Patent Reform Group) are the 
people calling for public money/insurance to help pay SME legal costs to 
enforce their patents.

This they say would make SMEs more likely to apply for patents, because 
they would be more able to take people to court to enforce them.


(ii)  The bill being debated here is *not* about software patents; it's 
mostly about some small-ish tweaks to the enforcement regime.



James Heald wrote:

> A long debate in the House of Commons yesterday on the Patents bill, 
> which makes some mostly pretty technical changes.
> 
> Even in the new improved They Work For You presentation, it's a pretty 
> lengthy read, for not an awful lot of enlightenment:
>     http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2004-06-07.39.0
> 
> but quite revealing for some of the broader views taken by MPs on 
> patents (or rather: by the handful of interested MPs).
> 
> It's clear that the Patent Defence Union seems to have got its message 
> over quite successfully.  We should perhaps have tried to be more 
> effective, too.  But David Taylor (Lab, NW Leics) made quite an 
> effective intervention against swpat,
>           http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2004-06-07.52.0
> although the minister dismissed it with the usual pre-prepared paragraph
>     http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2004-06-07.69.1
> 
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