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FFII: Site complexity hindered legal fix
News The FFII admitted on Tuesday that the complexity of its Web site meant that it was unable to immediately follow the instructions of a court order, resulting in its site being temporarily taken down. The company had obtained a preliminary injunction...
[August 3, 2005, 16:00]
FFII Web site taken down
Talkback Seems to be fine now, even for the DE domain: http://nutzwerk.ffii.de/index.en.html
[August 2, 2005, 17:43]
FFII Web site taken down
Talkback FFII.org still can't be accessed. I think the .de site is working.
[August 3, 2005, 9:29]
FFII: Site complexity hindered legal fix
Talkback FFII are not anti-patent, they are against software patents -- there is a very big difference. Also they are not just about the software patent issue, they are about ensuring our information infrastructure remains open and free - that means...
[August 8, 2005, 10:13]
FFII slams EC taskforce over software patents
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) claimed the report into intellectual property rights (IPR), which recommended the use of software patents by small firms, was written almost entirely by the patent industry and large...
[November 29, 2006, 13:48]
FFII Web site taken down
News The FFII Web site has been taken offline, after a German software company obtained a court order against the anti-patent campaign group. The software company, called Nutzwerk, has been issued five provisional court orders and one preliminary...
[August 2, 2005, 15:40]
FFII Web site taken down
Talkback FFII is still there at http://212.72.72.97/ or at http://wiki.ffii.de/SwpatcninoEn You can bypass the DNS by using the IP address directly.
[August 3, 2005, 12:58]
Novell vows to use its patents to defend open-source
Talkback Just wanted to point at a kwiki.ffii.org/Novell041012En commentary attributed to Hartmut Pilch from the FFII about these news. I don't understand all this PR fireworks. The only way to defend free software (and non-free software) against software...
[October 14, 2004, 9:52]
GAUSS and p2parl
Talkback The FFII patent wiki project is called Gauss, see http://gauss.ffii.org/GaussProject . You can sometimes find high quality comments regarding the validity of granted patents put online by anonymous writers, e.g http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView...
[December 14, 2006, 9:14]
UK Patent Office considers problem of trivial patents
Talkback I can't speak for FFII, but I've talked to them enough to know that the list of patents in the FFII website is not there because they are trivial, but because they are software patents, or patents in non patentable fields.
[February 7, 2006, 17:05]
Microsoft voted 'Best Campaigner against OOXML'
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), an organisation set up to aid the removal of barriers to competition in IT, gave the software giant the "Kayak Prize 2007", honouring Microsoft as the "Best Campaigner against OOXML...
[October 2, 2007, 13:00]
Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examinations
Blog Comment And many people cite broad/abstract/trivial/obvious granted European software patents (e.g.the FFII's patent mined webshop and its many other examples), but whether particular patents are damaging or not does not (usually) matter very much anyway.
[November 3, 2008, 10:28]
Software's nuclear winter is at hand
Talkback MP3.http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/trivial/ As Jim Warren of Autodesk demanded at the hearing in 1994 http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/quotes/#autodesk94 they must recognise that they committed errors and must correct these errors.
[August 20, 2004, 9:26]
EC slipping software patents 'through backdoor'
Talkback I doubt there's *anyone* who could still believe such absurd lies but one can always check the EPO patent database for oneself or look at these: http://webshop.ffii.de/index.en.html http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/samples/index.en.html
[October 7, 2005, 11:28]
Anti-patent demo planned in Brussels
News The protest is being organised by the FFII, a pan-European pressure group that claims to have more than 75,000 supporters. Dieter Van Uytvanck, a spokesman for the FFII, said it hopes the demonstration will show the Council and Commission the level...
[February 14, 2005, 15:55]
Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
News Rufus Pollock from the FFII UK Rufus Pollock from the UK branch of the Federation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) toasted what he claimed was a "massive victory" with champagne at a party attended by other campaigners against software...
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Despair greets software patent bill
Talkback In fact small software development and service businesses (and many primarily non-software businesses) are among those who stand to lose the most and are most at risk: http://protectinnovation.ffii.org.uk/ http://www.esr-pollmeier.de/swpat...
[March 9, 2005, 16:50]
Software patent limits 'go too far'
Talkback Our PR of last wednesday already said it all, see http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/ and we are continuing to watch, as the "patent experts" start waking up and finding with dismay that they their prerogative of dominating patent legislation...
[September 29, 2003, 15:50]
Software patents campaigners honoured
Talkback The anti-software patents movement (of which I am a member, both FFII and NoSoftwarePatents) is not necessarily against ALL patenting. I will certainly be advocating this view to both FFII and NSP. The CII directive is dead, but now the focus must...
[September 28, 2005, 21:16]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback When Nokia's IPR department can explain exactly why innovation and progress in software now depends on mobile phone manufacturers having a 20 year monopoly right to exclude others from using 'inventions' like this: http://gauss.ffii.org...
[May 3, 2005, 20:31]
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