Letter to a person that already knew about the issue but had asked for more background material.
- Hello Mr xxx, Mr yyy has asked me to send you a pointer to the Italian minister's letter. Because that was yesterday, some of the links below may be redundant, but at least in addition the letter I also can point you to an article that appeared today in La Repubblica too. Italy:
http://www.repubblica.it/2004/e/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/brevetti/brevetti/brevetti.html http://www.marcovic.it/Prot_1069.pdf http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Ital040514En Slovenia: http://mid.gov.si/mid/mid.nsf/f1?OpenFrameSet&Frame=main&Src=/mid/mid.nsf/0/E435EA2C3A0820D7C1256E94003F37E5?OpenDocument http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Slov040514En Germany: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47314 Belgium: http://www.lecho.be/webpdf/html/showpdf.pdf Background info (quite readable):
http://www.elis.ugent.be/~jmaebe/swpat/councilanalysis/paper-en.pdf http://bh.udev.org/filez/swpat/beaupre/compliance.pdf Cordially,
