Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
Talkback Please don't make up short forms for this directive which contain the word "CII". Everybody detests the "CII" name, even EICTA says it is badly named. There is no official shorthand and the one most used is "software patents directive" or "softpat...
[February 28, 2005, 22:12]
SMEs don't get their fair share of EU patents
News These figures explode the myth that CII [computer-implemented inventions] patents are the exclusive property of big business," said Mingorance. The final data extraction may have patents that are not CII, may not be SMEs and certainly we have...
[June 9, 2005, 18:35]
Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood
Talkback Nothing would make our members, who all support the CII Directive, happier than if the EU's Council of Ministers threw out the Directive. We could then remain with the status quo, which as everyone knows is working extremely well.
[January 21, 2005, 12:06]
Patent directive faces fishy future
Talkback Have you looked at the other items on the agenda with the CII Directive? Out of 16, I found only 1 that had anything to do with fish! This is how the Council usually operates. Nothing sinister or unusual.
[December 13, 2004, 12:45]
Software patents campaigners honoured
Talkback The CII directive is dead, but now the focus must move on the the European Patents Project. We must ensure that software patents do not sneak in through this measure. Furthermore I believe that we must take a positive stand to IMPROVE patent quality.
[September 28, 2005, 21:16]
Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examinations
Blog Comment This (and the strange series of decisions of the UK Courts recently) is the biggest news in software economics and ethics since the CII Directive when ZDnet UK helped fight for economic sanity and justice.
[October 30, 2008, 15:06]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback The Campaign for Creativity, which striongly SUPPORTS the patentability of Computer Implemented inventions, is delighted that the neo-Fascist UKIP are opposing the CII Directive. Happily for us, UKIP don't vote in the European Parliament anyway so...
[May 3, 2005, 21:54]
Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examinations
Blog Comment At the time of the CII Directive, the UKPO issued an explanatory document which contained this statement: The Directive aims to clarify the current situation, but retain the status quo: it is not about making all software patentable.
[October 31, 2008, 10:44]
IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
News This decision by IBM to grant access to the key innovations covered by 500 IBM US patents is a strong example of the compatibility of computer-implemented invention (CII) patents with the OSS development model," said MacGann.
[January 11, 2005, 16:05]
Patent campaigners make government breakthrough
Talkback They're too busy ripping off other people's work and peddling it as they as their own - whcih is of course is why they want to kill off the CII Directive, so they continue to do so. What a complete farce!
[December 14, 2004, 23:19]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
News A recent study by the Business Software Alliance indicates that SMEs account for 20% of all CII (Computer Implemented Inventions) patents granted since 1998 (and 2/3 in 2004) and 81% of them rely on patent protection for their businesses...
[June 23, 2005, 16:00]
