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Software patents campaigners honoured

...the CNET Networks UK Technology Awards. Florian Mueller of NoSoftwarePatents.com and Rufus Pollock of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) received their... Read more

28 September, 2005 by Colin Barker and Ingrid Marson

Microsoft criticised for Open XML petition

...through" and the petition "shows their worry". That view was echoed by Rufus Pollock, the director of the Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), who... Read more

5 April, 2007 by David Meyer

Patent Office considers Wiki peer review

...which is similar, so obviously we welcome this kind of idea," said Rufus Pollock, director of FFII UK. However, FFII UK has concerns about the... Read more

13 December, 2006 by Tom Espiner

FFII slams EC taskforce over software patents

...skills which are being used more and more." But FFII UK director Rufus Pollock claimed that this statement was self-serving, as Microsoft already holds... Read more

29 November, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Court rejects patent for form-filling program

...because every business method under the sun would have been patentable," said Rufus Pollock, director of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a... Read more

27 October, 2006 by Richard Thurston

European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation

...and the FFII had called on MEPs to vote against the proposal. Rufus Pollock, the director of FFII UK, said that the Parliament's vote... Read more

16 March, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

DRM is failing, MPs told

...virtually all media companies use digital rights management in some form, but Rufus Pollock, UK director of the FFII, argued that this didn't prove... Read more

2 February, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat

...Wednesday to reject the directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventions. Rufus Pollock from the UK branch of the Federation for a Free Information... Read more

7 July, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners

...has not been invited despite writing to his MP. James Heald and Rufus Pollock of the FFII have not received an invitation. Pollock said that... Read more

7 December, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

UK Patent Office under fire over software report

...There are lots of things it doesn't mention and gets wrong." Rufus Pollock, the UK spokesman for the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure... Read more

8 November, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

Anti-patent campaigner calls for EU recount

...proposal is withdrawn as there needs to be further discussion or vote. Rufus Pollock, the UK spokesman for the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure... Read more

2 November, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

Software patent battle set to flare up again

...dubious and inaccurate claims that have been heard for so long," said Rufus Pollock, the FFII's UK spokesman. "These latest comments smack of desperation... Read more

29 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

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