The EU Patent Office should adopt a Logical Language A Logical Language like Lojban could solve the problem of multilinguality in the European Patent system, especially with regard to the Community Patent. A text properly written in Logical Language would be translatable to all other languages automatically. At the same time, the experience of Logical Language shows that normal human language can be equivalent to a programming language. Especially patent descriptions should be written in turing-complete Lojban. If computer programs are to be patentable, so should patent descriptions be.
Legal concepts are equivalent to programming concepts.
The Logical Language has in the past been harrassed by claims of of ownership of ideas, and it would be a severe threat to the further development of open-source Logical Language parsing tools, if the new programming ideas, which inevitably occur during the development, could be patented. Patent specifications should belong to the public domain. They should be published in an open hypertext format of high abstraction power and placed under an open content license that allows anybody to rearrange and republish them under similar conditions. This would create an open market for patent research software and services and thereby greatly reduce patent application costs. EU citiziens should remain entitled to be informed in their own language about what they are allowed to do and what not.