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FFII: Site complexity hindered legal fix

The FFII admitted on Tuesday that the complexity of its Web site meant that... Read more

3 August, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

UK Patent Office under fire over software report

...their views on patents on a Web site set up by the FFII. One posting, from the managing director of a small software company, states... Read more

8 November, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

Court rejects patent for form-filling program

...said Rufus Pollock, director of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the development of information goods... Read more

27 October, 2006 by Richard Thurston

EC: Software is not patentable

...reject the software patent directive. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), which has doggedly campaigned against software patents in Europe, was confused at... Read more

24 May, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation

...litigation and more software patents. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) was also concerned about its implications. "The mutual recognition of national patents... Read more

16 March, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents

...campaigners. Hartmut Pilch, the president of Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the Liberal Democrats have behaved in... Read more

23 June, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Patent activists protest in Brussels

...planned by European pressure group the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) to protest against the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which they fear... Read more

18 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Software patent battle set to flare up again

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

29 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

UK firms vent anger at software patents

...by the UK arm of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), which hopes to gather testimony showing that software patents threaten innovation and... Read more

22 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Software patent protest to block Web sites

...small and medium-sized developers. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), which is organising the online protest, is urging Web sites to temporarily... Read more

26 August, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

EU software patents: the lesson of victory

The battle against bad law has been won at the last minute. Celebrate, but the war isn't over yet Read more

3 February, 2005 by Leader

FFII Web site taken down

The FFII Web site has been taken offline, after a German software company obtained... Read more

2 August, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

FFII slams EC taskforce over software patents

...it wrongly promotes software patents. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) claimed the report into intellectual property rights (IPR), which recommended the use... Read more

29 November, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Software patents campaigners honoured

...com and Rufus Pollock of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) received their awards in front of an audience of IT professionals from... Read more

28 September, 2005 by Colin Barker and Ingrid Marson

EC: Software patents will still be granted

...more than 500,000 businesses; the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII); and the Free Software Foundation. These groups were concerned that the directive... Read more

21 July, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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