Patent Directive Adoption Just Days Away
News An EU Council spokeswoman said on Monday that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which many say will allow widespread software patenting in Europe, is likely to be ratified on 31 January.
[January 24, 2005, 16:30]
Commission Refuses To Rewrite Patent Directive
News The European Commission (EC) has rejected requests to rewrite the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), sparking a furious response from campaigners who accused the EC of acting undemocratically.
[February 28, 2005, 15:45]
Patent Office Wants Debate On Software Directive
News This is a key part of the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which says that software can be patented if it can be shown to make a technical contribution. Peter Hayward, a divisional director at the UKPO, said the Patent Office...
[February 4, 2005, 11:55]
Patent Directive 'could Halt Linux Development'
News The CIID has sparked many months of argument, debate and confusion within Europe. The EC spokesman said he understood that the Council is planning to put the CIID on the agenda of the March 7 meeting.
[March 1, 2005, 14:25]
Patent Nonsense: The Case For Unfettered Development
News The Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID) has caused considerable controversy ever since it started passing through the corridors of the European Union in 2002. If the CIID passes through and legalises these software patents, every...
[February 18, 2005, 15:45]
Patent Directive 'back On EU Agenda'
News The Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID) may be ratified next Monday, a move that would give anti-patent campaigners little time to take action. A minister from Luxembourg and a representative from the European Commission's Industrial...
[January 21, 2005, 11:50]
Liberal Democrats Accused Of Double Standards Over Patents
Talkback The EC could not have included the CIID as an A-item, as it claims. The EP is out of order by even considering sw patents at this point. Due to objections by representatives of member states. The EP needs to send this back to the EC until such time...
[June 27, 2005, 14:04]
Europe's IT Industry Gets Wake-up Call
Talkback Putting aside the questionable nature of the procedural violations the EC carried out this week, the CIID would allow all US sw patents to be valid in Europe. sw patents will prevent that independence if they are allowed in Europe.
[March 10, 2005, 16:11]
Commission Refuses To Rewrite Patent Directive
Talkback "CIID" is an insult too A "computer implemented invention" is as pure a software solution as a software solution can get, and by saying that it is an Invention in the sense of patent law, you subscribe to the partisan view of the Commission on this...
[February 28, 2005, 22:12]
Microsoft In Dock Over JPEG Patent
Talkback The EP needs to annul the EC's violation process regarding the CIID. Yet another reason to leave software patents in the US and keep Europe clean. Despite the pro-software patents lobby's claims to the contrary, and the media's parroting them...
[April 25, 2005, 15:31]
EC: Software Patents Will Still Be Granted
Talkback By defeating the CIID, Europe has gained an enormous advantage over the US. Challenge the process not the patents. The EPO can grant an infinite number of invalid sw patents and grind the proponents for a free market down that way.
[July 22, 2005, 9:10]
Patent Directive Deadlocked
News The European Commission and the EU Council appear to have reached an impasse, with each waiting for the other to make a decision on the future of the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID). Earlier this month the Legal Affairs Committee...
[February 23, 2005, 16:25]
EU Parliament Demands Patent Restart
News The battle to prevent software patents being introduced in Europe received a major boost on Wednesday afternoon when the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament (EP) demanded that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive...
[February 3, 2005, 10:20]
Patent Activists Protest In Brussels
News The demonstration was 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 will allow the widespread patenting of...
[February 18, 2005, 12:15]
EC Pushes On With Patent Directive
News Last week the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament (EP) demanded that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID) be started from scratch. The European Commission is pushing the EU Council to ratify the controversial...
[February 11, 2005, 15:25]
Microsoft Denies Blackmail Accusations
News Danish financial newspaper Børsen reported on Tuesday that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told the Danish Prime Minister he would move all 800 jobs at Navision, a Danish company acquired by Microsoft in 2002, to the States unless the EU adopted the...
[February 15, 2005, 15:05]
Microsoft May Become 'major Opponent Of Patents'
News Despite the European Parliament's recent decision to reject the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID) the European Commission (EC) has warned that patent offices across Europe will continue to grant software patents.
[October 6, 2005, 13:35]
