No Software patents
In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitely seeking to sanction the patentabilitty of software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators.
Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
President FFII
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- http://news.swpat.org/2012/03/brazilian-swpat-consultation/
- http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
- https://www.eff.org/patent
- https://www.eff.org/issues/how-patents-hinder-innovation
- http://tinyurl.com/WhySoftwareIsMathematics
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- http://eupat.ffii.org/10/03/
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- http://endsoftpatents.org/
- http://patentabsurdity.com/resources.html
- http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110426051819346
- http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu
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- http://www.softwarepatents.co.uk/
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- http://endsoftpatents.org
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- http://beauprez.net/softpat/summary.html
- http://en.swpat.org/wiki/
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- http://patentabsurdity.com/resources.html
- http://www.softwarepatenten.be
- http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-160636/european-patent-office-refuses-spanish-amicus-brief-against-software-patents
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- http://www.fsf.org/events/20090302paris
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- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html
- http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Software_patents_wiki:_home_page
- http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Gov/Other/copyrigh.ec
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- https://petition.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/wiki/Studies
- http://patinfo.ffii.org
- http://patinfo.ffii.org/material/
- http://lasporg.blogspot.com/
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- http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulk/patents/isnot.pdf
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- http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2001/6/up2-6Smets.pdf
- http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/basics/index.html
- http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/os/ps.fr.html
- http://www.droit-technologie.org/actuality-883/the-patentability-of-computer-implemented-inventions-the-latest-ec-c.html
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- http://tinyurl.com/GroklawPatentsLinks
- http://tinyurl.com/WhySoftwareIsMathematics
- http://bit.ly/qRjdlJ ( Google news concerning software patents)
Software patents are more trouble than they are worth.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention
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- http://www.patentstorm.us/
- http://www.jurisdiction.com/epc.htm
- http://www.endsoftpatents.org
- http://www.eupaco.org/eupaco3
- http://www.researchoninnovation.org/
- http://www.transformingfreedom.org/en/node/18
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_patents
- http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/
- http://consultation.ffii.org/Questionnaire
- http://lists.ffii.org/pipermail/news/2008-September/000362.html
- http://lists.ffii.org/pipermail/news/2000-August/000004.html
- http://lists.ffii.org/pipermail/news/2008-May/000359.html
- http://press.ffii.org/Software_patent_news
- http://patinfo.ffii.org
- http://patinfo.ffii.org/material/
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/593.de.html
- http://www.imatix.com/articles:software-patent-discrimination
- http://www.digitalmajority.org/swpatnews
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- https://listes.aful.org/wws/arc/patents/2008-04/msg00000.html
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