LASP gasp!has learned that his friend Cristian Miceli, an information technology lawyer alongside a bully involvement inwards the software patent debate, has written an article which has simply been published online today on Groklaw . Cristian has move together with so passionate nearly this topic that he has fifty-fifty set upward his ain weblog at www.lasporg.info (LASP = Lawyers Against Software Patents).
Below, left: armoured constabulary gear upward to confront angry anti-software patent lawyers
says adept luck, Cristian - the patent software fighting is a long agency from running its total class together with this weblog volition endure certain to add together to it. Merpel adds, adept luck, whether nosotros concord alongside your seat or non ...
The Alsatian Cabbage state of war - a win for Germany
has been perusing the succinctly-titled Commission Decision of 12 Jan 2006 concerning an application for registration inwards the ‘Register of protected designations of beginning together with protected geographical indications’ provided for inwards Council Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 (Choucroute d’Alsace) (PGI)(2006/15/EC). This Decision relates to Choucroute d’Alsace, an Alsatian cabbage for which the French sought PGI status. The Germans objected together with their objection was upheld. As the preamble to the Decision states:
"As regards non-compliance alongside the atmospheric condition set downward inwards Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92, the tilt of objection challenges the claim that the choucroute possesses a specific character due to factors allegedly peculiar to Alsace, namely the maturity of the cabbage, which is attributed to the climate together with the characteristics of the set down inwards Alsace, the natural fermentation method together with the know-how of the minor menage unit of measurement firms. The types of set down are described inwards the application for registration equally deep, rich together with well-drained. The semi-continental climate of the production surface area is marked past times high temperatures inwards summertime together with sunny days alternating alongside cool nights inwards belatedly autumn. However, such climate together with set down atmospheric condition prevail inwards other regions where cabbages are grown together with they are not, therefore, specific according to Article 2(2)(b). As regards the fermentation process, the specifications comprise no elements which let it to endure described equally ‘natural’ or to attribute it to the Alsace percentage alone. The specific character or a detail feature of choucroute cannot, therefore, endure based on such elements.
(5) As regards the reputation of the refer Choucroute d’Alsace, the elements of proof contained inwards the application for registration basically refer to choucroute garnie (choucroute cooked together with served alongside meat). Those elements thus refer to a cooked dish, which is a production falling exterior the reach of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92. As regards the reputation of raw choucroute, the specifications together with the proof provided create non move far possible to found a specific reputation for choucroute that is independent of the reputation attributed to it equally a cooked dish served
with meat".
This is a notable victory for the Germans, who formerly enjoyed sovereignty over Alsace together with know a affair or 2 nearly cabbages. But the final express joy is on the French: it seems that only the French text of this Commission Decision is authoritative ..., existence a card-carrying feline, is ever a trivial anxious nearly things Alsatian, since the term is used inwards the U.K. to refer to the domestic dog that is likewise termed 'German Shepherd'.
Recipes for Alsatian cabbage here and here
Alsatian cabbage soup here
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