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				<title>European Patent Office refuses spanish amicus brief against software patents</title>
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						 <div class="image-container floatright"><img src="http://esoma.wdfiles.com/local--files/esoma:team/alberto_barrionuevo_small.jpg" alt="alberto_barrionuevo_small.jpg" class="image" /></div> <p>Alberto Barrionuevo, CEO of the small spanish software company <a href="http://www.opentia.com/">OpenTIA</a> and ex-president of the <a href="http://ffii.org/">FFII</a>, had submitted an amicus brief to the Enlarged Board of Appeal in spanish. The European Patent Office has notified him that they are refusing his letter because it was not written in one of the 3 official languages of the EPO (French, English or German):</p> <blockquote> <p>From: DG3registry_eba &lt;<span class="wiki-email">gro.ope|abe_yrtsiger3gd#gro.ope|abe_yrtsiger3gd</span>&gt;<br /> To: Alberto BARRIONUEVO &lt;<span class="wiki-email">se.aitnepo|oirraba#se.aitnepo|oirraba</span>&gt;<br /> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009&nbsp;15:10:18 +0200<br /> Subject: Re: Amicus Curiae Brief contribution to referral G03/08</p> <p>Dear Sirs,</p> <p>Any written statement filed to our proceedings should be in one of the official languages of the EPO = German, Enlish or French.<br /> To ensure that your statement can be given due consideration you are kindly requested to file it in one of the these languages.</p> <p>You may file it as a signed pdf.file or by signed fax.</p> <p>Best regards<br /> W. Roepstorff<br /> Registrar</p> </blockquote> <p>As of today, the letter is still available in the <a href="http://www.epo.org/patents/appeals/eba-decisions/referrals/pending/briefs.html">online register of the EPO</a>, see also a copy of it in <a href="http://media.ffii.org/EbaReferral090430/pdf/Opentia_es.pdf">PDF</a> or <a href="http://media.ffii.org/EbaReferral090430/html/Opentia_es.html">HTML</a>.</p> <p>Why discriminate citizens in function of their language? Basically Spain should go out of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Patent_Convention">European Patent Convention</a> if its citizens cannot talk to the authority granting patents for their territory.</p> <p>The EPO has tried automatic translation for spanish, and a while ago, I submitted a link to a spanish automated translation of the Amazon Gift patent to the <a href="http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/es-parl">es-parl discussion list</a> (Es-parl — Coordinación y debate anti-patentes en España). Here are some of the results:</p> <blockquote> <p>[es-parl] Automated translation of Amazon 1-click patent from english to spanish<br /> Benjamin Henrion bh en udev.org<br /> Mie Nov 12&nbsp;14:49:48 CET 2008</p> <p>Hi,</p> <p>Automated translation is proposed by the EPO as the magic bullet to<br /> solve the Community Patent problem.</p> <p>Can you tell me if this looks like comprehensible spanish:</p> <p><a href="http://epo.worldlingo.com/wl/epo/epo.html?SEED=EP0927945&amp;SEED_FORMAT=E&amp;ACTION=Claims&amp;OPS=ops.espacenet.com&amp;LOCALE=en_V3&amp;TRGLANG=ES&amp;T=1">http://epo.worldlingo.com/wl/epo/epo.html?SEED=EP0927945&amp;SEED_FORMAT=E&amp;ACTION=Claims&amp;OPS=ops.espacenet.com&amp;LOCALE=en_V3&amp;TRGLANG=ES&amp;T=1</a></p> <p>It is the automated translation of the Amazon 1-click patent:</p> <p><a href="http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC=EP&amp;NR=0927945&amp;KC=&amp;FT=E">http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC=EP&amp;NR=0927945&amp;KC=&amp;FT=E</a></p> <p>which is currently being appealed at the EPO TBA.</p> <p>Best,</p> <p>—<br /> Benjamin Henrion &lt;bhenrion at ffii.org&gt;<br /> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403</p> </blockquote> <p>Here is the answer I got:</p> <blockquote> <p>Hu Benjamin,</p> <p>Definitely the text is not compressible in Spanish.</p> <p>Best regards,</p> <p>Javier</p> </blockquote> <p>It is time for EU citizens to put some sand into the EPO machine and challenge its accessibility in front of constitutional courts, or courts of human rights. Such language discrimination cannot exist at the time we want to build a patent system for Europe.</p> <p>If such basic human rights considerations cannot be satisfied, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party">some people</a> will take care of the <a href="http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-150096/stallman:the-epo-is-a-corrupt-and-malicious-organisation-which-should-not-exist">future of the EPO</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The European Patent Office is a corrupt malicious organisation which should not exist. (Applauds)</p> </blockquote> 
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