Friday 18 March 2005 FTC Meeting on Patents in Boston

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 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:08:53 -0500 (EST)
 From: New Yorkers for Fair Use
 Subject: Friday 18 March 2005 FTC Meeting on Patents in Boston

 In Boston on Friday 18 March 2005, the next to last of a series of meetings
 dealing with the United States patent policies will take place.  The final
 meeting will be held in Washington DC on Thursday 9 June 2005.

 http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/workshops/patenttownmeetings/index.htm

 There is a $65 fee to attend the Boston meeting.


 PUBPAT has pointed out that voices of the public should be heard at these
 meetings:

 http://www.pubpat.org/Town_Hall_Meetings.htm


 New Yorkers for Fair Use will attend the Boston meeting.  If you would like
 to join us at the Boston meeting on 18 March 2005 or at the Washington DC
 meeting on 9 June 2005 contact Jay Sulzberger at

 jays@panix.com

 Please put the string "PATENTS" in the subject line of your message.


 New Yorkers for Fair Use will argue against software patents at every
 meeting we attend.


 For more information about the dangers of an Englobulated World Patent 
 System, see:

 http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#swpat
 http://swpat.ffii.org/group/todo
 http://swpat.ffii.org

 As with copyrights, so with patents: the stakeholders are not governments,
 nor cartels, nor lawyers' professional associations.  We the people are the
 stakeholders.

 New Yorkers for Fair Use
 http://www.nyfairuse.org
  
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Distributed poC TINC:

Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org