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Economists reject European software patent proposals
News A group of economists from around Europe has issued a scathing critique of the European Parliament's proposed law on software patents, arguing it would damage Europe's software industry, while benefiting almost no one except patent lawyers.
[August 27, 2003, 17:55]
Economists reject European software patent proposals
Talkback thank you for putting it so blunt and to-the-point. Unfortunetly, law-makers will never get a clue unless the citzenry makes it's opinions heard in way that can't be ignored.
[August 29, 2003, 21:58]
Economists reject European software patent proposals
Talkback No one in their right mind wants a fiasco like the one going on in the US at the moment regarding law suits flying backward and forward over ridiculous patent claims. Is there a connection between MEPS that were trained as lawyers and the lawyers...
[February 28, 2004, 15:43]
Economists reject European software patent proposals
Talkback All someone needs to do is complie a list of all the ridiculous software patent related litigation that's been going on in the US, send it to the European Parliament, and ask them if that's the kind of garbage they want to institute there.
[August 28, 2003, 1:29]
European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation
Talkback Patent countries against non-patent countries? A few years ago this whole patent thing could have been ended with a single word: NO. One must be very poorly informed today to even consider software patents at the EU level.
[March 20, 2006, 22:48]
Software patents make a mockery of European ideals
Talkback Waive with your enormously expensive software patent (that somehow can't be dragged through court for years by laywers that try to dispute it) of your own? And information needs need innovative software.
[March 7, 2005, 22:49]
Software patents make a mockery of European ideals
Talkback And if anyone has any sense Lord Sainsbury should not be represendting GB in the counsil of ministers any more - he is a software patent fanatic if there ever was one - and he is one of the people who have been pushing the EU to adopt this...
[March 7, 2005, 21:16]
Software patents make a mockery of European ideals
Talkback Even now* there is probably more of a chance of winning against the European Patent Office legislation than there is against the UK mandarins. We in the UK would never even have had a chance to stop the UK Patent Office in its tracks without Europe.
[March 7, 2005, 16:57]
European software patents not pending
Leader When Poland and nine other states joined in May, this mathematics had to be redone - and the new numbers have just come into effect, before the vote that would enshrine the patent legislation. We're big enough not to need the US: instead, US...
[November 18, 2004, 11:55]
Software patents make a mockery of European ideals
Talkback Punishment for our pro-patent national governments (losing a vote is the only language they understand). This same principle would apply to other crazy proposals of the European Commission - like the "Bolkestein directive".
[March 11, 2005, 15:25]
Lobbyists prepare for next software patent battle
News Last year, the directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventions, commonly known as the software patent directive, was rejected by the European Parliament. Although this consultation does not mention software patents directly, there...
[January 23, 2006, 16:20]
European Patent Office scotches appeal for review
News The European Patent Office has declined a request from the UK Court of Appeal to clarify European software patent law. Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Jacob asked the European Patent Office (EPO) to review the rules on software patents, saying...
[March 22, 2007, 8:35]
Patent directive slammed at UKPO workshop
News A group of software developers and patent lawyers agreed on Thursday at a UK Patent Office (UKPO) workshop that the definition of technical contribution in the proposed European software patent directive is wrong.
[April 8, 2005, 14:30]
Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examinations
Blog The hallowed halls of the European Patent Office (EPO) have been reverberating with disquiet this month and it’s all as a result of the software industry in the form of the long-running Symbian case. According to the Chartered Institute of Patent...
[October 29, 2008, 7:10]
Bono and anti-patent campaigner go head-to-head
News Florian Mueller, one of the leading campaigners against the European software patent directive, was elevated to the lofty heights inhabited by the frontmen of U2 and the Boom town Rats on Thursday after being nominated for two prestigious European...
[September 23, 2005, 17:10]
Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examinations
Blog Comment And many people cite broad/abstract/trivial/obvious granted European software patents (e.g.the FFII's patent mined webshop and its many other examples), but whether particular patents are damaging or not does not (usually) matter very much anyway.
[November 3, 2008, 10:28]
Software patents vote delayed
News A Monday vote on a controversial software patents proposal in the European Parliament has been put back until September, amid criticism by MEPs that the legislation would institute a US-style patent regime that would be detrimental to European...
[June 30, 2003, 12:30]
EC: Software is not patentable
News Software patent campaigners were shocked on Wednesday by an apparent change in stance towards software patents by the European Commission. This statement appears to contradict what the EC said last year - that the EPO would continue to grant...
[May 24, 2006, 15:25]
Stallman fights European software patents
News The European Patent Office is expected to decide by the end of this week whether to allow software patents. Richard Stallman, who founded the GNU project promoting the open development of software, and also created the League for Programming...
[November 21, 2000, 14:24]
EU seeks 'legally clever' patent definition
News The directive itself says software is not patentable and the European Patent Office says the same, but software patents have been allowed anyway" said the spokesman. The European Patent Office has problems in taking a decision on whether to allow a...
[May 17, 2005, 16:00]
