Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners
News James Heald and Rufus Pollock of the FFII have not received an invitation. I've written to the UKPO to say could they make sure that Rufus [Pollock] and James [Heald] get invited," said Allan. Pollock said that he would be disappointed if they are...
[December 7, 2004, 15:55]
Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
News Rufus Pollock from the UK branch of the Federation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) toasted what he claimed was a "massive victory" with champagne at a party attended by other campaigners against software patents.
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Software patents campaigners honoured
News Florian Mueller of NoSoftwarePatents.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 across the industry at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
[September 28, 2005, 13:05]
Software patent battle set to flare up again
News The EICTA is repeating the same dubious and inaccurate 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 do at a time when there have been extremely...
[October 29, 2004, 10:34]
FFII slams EC taskforce over software patents
News But FFII UK director Rufus Pollock claimed that this statement was self-serving, as Microsoft already holds many patents that it wishes to license to an untapped SME market. Most people protect innovative investment through copyright," Pollock told...
[November 29, 2006, 13:48]
DRM is failing, MPs told
News One MP pointed out that virtually all media companies use digital rights management in some form, but Rufus Pollock, UK director of the FFII, argued that this didn't prove that DRM was a good thing. Content developers are pretty terrible at...
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
Patent Office considers Wiki peer review
News We have an ongoing project called Gauss which is similar, so obviously we welcome this kind of idea," said Rufus Pollock, director of FFII UK. said Pollock. Pollock also said FFII was concerned that it may be difficult to find the requisite number...
[December 13, 2006, 16:28]
Court rejects patent for form-filling program
News It would have been a disaster if Macrossan was said to be patentable, because every business method under the sun would have been patentable," said Rufus Pollock, director of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a not-for...
[October 27, 2006, 13:15]
Microsoft criticised for Open XML petition
News That view was echoed by Rufus Pollock, the director of the Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), who told ZDNet UK that Microsoft was pushing for the fast-track because it feared the spread of the OpenDocument Format through the...
[April 5, 2007, 14:12]
UK Patent Office under fire over software report
News Rufus Pollock, the UK spokesman for the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), says the FFII has a similar view. We are also concerned that a supposedly neutral, government-funded, administrative agency is taking such a strongly...
[November 8, 2004, 17:18]
Anti-patent campaigner calls for EU recount
News Rufus Pollock, the UK spokesman for the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) told ZDNet UK that the change in voting weights is important. It might well be possible, should the Council not take this into account, for the parties...
[November 2, 2004, 15:49]
European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation
News Rufus Pollock, the director of FFII UK, said that the Parliament's vote was a "great result", but said it was vital that people participate in the European Commission's ongoing consultation on patent policy, to reduce the risk of further...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
