SMEs feeling excluded from EC patent consultation
Talkback Yes completely true what is written about EICTA. And EICTA. They represent small, medium and LARGE companies. Includig Microsoft. And lets not fool our selfs. Microosoft makes not secret of there software patents plans.
[March 9, 2006, 22:07]
Software patent battle set to flare up again
News EICTA, the European Information and Communication Technology Association, wrote to the Parliament's legal committee this week calling for the introduction of software patents. EICTA argued this would protect the investment made by European...
[October 29, 2004, 10:34]
High noon for software patent directive
News Pro-patent organisation EICTA claimed on Monday that the directive does not favour large companies. EICTA represents 10,000 small, medium and large companies in Europe, with over two million employees.
[July 5, 2005, 17:50]
IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
News IBM is a member of pro-patent organisation EICTA. A spokesman for Germany's ruling Social Democratic (SPD) party, which spoke out against the directive in October, told ZDNet UK that IBM has put pressure on it both individually and through EICTA to...
[January 11, 2005, 16:05]
Patent opponents claim success
News Those in favour of the directive, such as the European Information and Communication Technology Association (EICTA), insist that it would actually maintain the status quo, and help European companies to compete.
[November 17, 2004, 16:35]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback Glad to hear some politicians haven't swallowed the contra-factual drivel and mind-bogglingly fallacious reasoning coming from the likes of EICTA, the EPO and the UKPO. When Nokia's IPR department can explain exactly why innovation and progress in...
[May 3, 2005, 20:31]
Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
Talkback Everybody detests the "CII" name, even EICTA says it is badly named. "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...
[February 28, 2005, 22:12]
Judge dreads software patents
Talkback And groups like EICTA and BSA that claim to represent small and medium size business pushing for broad software patents don't represent us. There is an error in the article, the European Parlement and the commision have both already funded...
[January 16, 2006, 23:22]
Green laws will tackle standby appliances
News Zoe McMahon, HP environmental strategies and sustainability manager, said her company supports the Eco-Design of Energy Using Products (EUP) Directive and has been actively involved in its development through the European industry association, EICTA.
[July 6, 2005, 16:30]
IBM's open patents are just the first step
Leader As a member of EICTA, it remains publicly committed to a strong software patent regime in Europe: a strange position for a company simultaneously trying to negate the dangers of the American system. IBM's decision to make five hundred patents...
[January 11, 2005, 12:20]
EU to throw patents in with the bath water
News But these concerns are rejected by pro-patent organisation EICTA, which is supported by various large multinationals including IBM and HP. The controversial EU directive that opponents fear will allow software patenting within Europe will be passed...
[December 17, 2004, 16:15]
Poles push patents off EU agenda
News The] Council's failure today constitutes a worrying setback for innovation in Europe, and throws doubt on our collective commitment to the Lisbon Agenda," claimed Mark MacGann, director general of EICTA (European Information and Communications...
[December 21, 2004, 15:00]
'Deceptive' patent lobbying sparks calls for transparency
News Pro-patent lobby groups Intellect and EICTA also failed to respond. The Green Party has called for greater transparency in political lobbying following the tactics of some campaign groups during the debating of the software patent directive.
[July 11, 2005, 14:15]
SMEs feeling excluded from EC patent consultation
News However, not all SMEs are against software patents, with pro-patent organisation EICTA claiming to represent 10,000 "small, medium and large companies" in Europe. An intellectual-property campaign group has criticised the way the European...
[March 9, 2006, 11:55]
Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
News Although pro-patent campaign groups such as CompTIA, EICTA and Intellect had lobbied for the directive to be passed by parliament, they claim to welcome the European Parliament's decision. EICTA also said it welcomed Parliament's decision.
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Software patent directive rejected
News While many SMEs, free software advocates and software developers have spoken out against the directive from the start, various large companies have lobbied for the directive, often via campaign groups such as the Business Software Alliance, EICTA...
[July 6, 2005, 12:25]
EU vote 'widens loopholes' in software patent directive
Talkback EICTA: "But we need patent protection for our inventions and if you don't give us a 20 year monopoly on every last detail of every aspect of the computable, and every trivial idea that enters our heads, the European economy will collapse.
[June 21, 2005, 18:34]
