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Zuck: Incomplete single market puts EU behind competitors
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| Fragmentation of the EU's single market and particularly its patent system
| represent major obstacles to innovation, which is mainly driven by SMEs,
| Jonathan Zuck, president of an association representing more than 3,000 small
| and mid-sized IT firms from around the world, told EurActiv in an interview.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/innovation/zuck-incomplete-single-market-puts-eu-competitors/article-177899
The shills even released a 'study':
ACTOnline: Study: Fragmented EU patent system impedes innovation
http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-112158/actonline:study:fragmented-eu-patent-system-impedes-innovation
Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Member of the European Parliament
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| There has been a broad discussion about his role in the debate about software
| patents in the European Parliament. Lehne has been one of the MEPs pushing
| for software patents, while Taylor Wessing has a large patent group and
| advises clients on patenting strategy in the software sector. Lehne has
| argued that he wasn’t involved with any companies engaged in the patents
| debate in his work as a lawyer. But still he is a partner in a law firm that
| boasts that its “patent group is one of the strongest, largest and best known
| in Europe”.
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http://www.worstlobby.eu/2008/vote/info/8/worstconflictofinterest
Will Linux Defenders Save Linux from Microsoft?
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| Questions over patent validity in software are never easy to answer, but it's
| one that a new effort called Linux Defenders from the Open Invention Network
| (OIN) is trying help solve.
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| Linux Defender includes facilities for peer-to-peer patent review, post
| patent review as well as defensive publications for patents.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3790351/Will+Linux+Defenders+Save+Linux+from+Microsoft.htm
Recent:
Kiel Conference with talk about software "patent dirt"
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| It matters which sort of legal protection you take. Felix van Kourten argues
| why patent law suits software so badly and why we are better off with
| copyright law. Oct 10 he will speak at the Kiel Linux and Open Source Days.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-90718/kiel-conference-with-talk-about-software-patent-dirt
European Patent Office staff on strike
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| Patent examiners and other staff of the European Patent Office (EPO)
| demonstrated outside the European Commission offices Thursday, demanding a
| thorough re-examination of the EPO.
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| [...]
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| The staff union, SUEPO, say that lowering the quality of patents will have a
| disastrous effect on innovation which will affect every consumer. Their 'Save
| The EPO' campaign is not aimed at increasing wages but in reinforcing patent
| quality.
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http://www.expatica.com/be/articles/news/European-Patent-Office-staff-on-strike.html
EPO examiners take the streets in Brussels asking to "Save the EPO"
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| On Thursday, 18 September 2008, staff members of the European Patent Office
| (EPO) demonstrated in Brussels for a reform of its supervisory board.
| Examiners are complaining about the broken governance of the Institution.
| Examiners do not trust neither members of the Administrative Council, neither
| their President Brimelow. A patent examiner confessed that most of them were
| against software patents but as civil servants they were not allowed to speak
| out publicly about their concerns.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-90354/epo-examiners-take-the-streets-in-brussels-asking-to-save-the-epo
Strikes and Demonstrations of EPO Staff
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| The EPO staff are trying to make their voice heard by a series of actions
| against the undermining of the European Patent Organisation by its governing
| body and management (see below). In particular, on September 18th, a strike
| of EPO staff was observed by the vast majority at all four sites of
| employment, over 250 of whom travelled to Brussels to take part in a
| demonstration. The demonstration route went from Square Frère Orban to the
| Berlaymont, the seat of the European Commission. On the way, a petition was
| delivered at the German and British embassies (and subsequently also to the
| French embassy). At the Berlaymont, the seat of European Commission, speeches
| were held by the SUEPO chairmen as well as by Sylvie Jacobs, Vice-President
| of USF. On September 19th, a SUEPO delegation has further been invited to
| discuss their concerns with the European Commission.
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http://www.suepo.org/public/
European Patent Office staff to demonstrate for reforms
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| The international Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) has
| called on the staff of the office to strike on Thursday 18th of September,
| and to demonstrate in Brussels for a reform of its supervisory board. The
| strike and demonstration are timed to coincide with meeting in the Belgian
| capital of the executive of the patent office, under its president Alison
| Brimelow, to seek approaches to a "strategic renovation". The employee
| representatives expect around 300 staff members from the patent offices in
| Munich, Berlin, The Hague and Vienna to attend the protest rally.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/115940
EPO examiners do not trust Brimelow for her quality reforms
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| According to an EPO internal staff survey of June 2008, only 9% of the EPO
| examiners believes that "Brimelow and the Vice-Presidents actively promote
| patent quality". Brimelow is progressing, since Alain Pompidou, the former
| President, had a trust of only 7%.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-89228/epo-examiners-do-not-trust-brimelow-for-her-quality-reforms
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
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| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
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| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
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