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[The Microsoft Shill Jonathan Zuck Attacks Europe Again]
Anger as IP sacrificed for interoperability
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| Jonathan Zuck, president of the Association for Competitive Technology, said
| the EU scored an own goal with the document. "It aims to facilitate digital
| cooperation among European administrations, but in effect it excludes many
| well-established technologies from being used for e-Government services due
| to a narrow definition of open standards."
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http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1964355&LS=EMS189365
- From http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
[PJ: Yup. The BSA and CompTIA are riding agin. Yippee-ki-yi-ay, it's a range
war, and here comes the pr machine, and along with them dutifully ride some of
the media. "The software industry" is expressing concerns? IP is
being "sacrificed"? Or is it some fronts for Microsoft expressing concern?
Take your pick. I'm pretty sure Red Hat isn't complaining, and they are part
of the software industry, after all. And not even all the members of these
organizations wish to be represented this way [...]]
The Commission's incoherent approach to IP imperils Europe's economic future
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| And alongside a Community patent we need a single European patent
| jurisdiction through which we can end the current patchwork of often
| contradictory decisions in patent cases handed down by national courts. On
| top of this, just three years ago the Commission was telling us that we
| needed a Computer Implemented Inventions directive to harmonise the treatment
| of software patents, again to help SMEs and to provide certainty in the
| software market. In short, the Commission tells us that patents are good and
| patents are vital to Europe’s prosperity.
|
| [...]
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| So, a go-getting and smart European SME may well have invested significant
| time and money in developing world-class software. It may have followed the
| advice of commissioners McCreevy and Verheugen to get patent protection, but
| when it comes to putting that software into a potentially lucrative
| pan-European project, it’s no can do.
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=dee4d291-84a6-41dd-b606-05facca4b7df
Recent:
Campaign4Creativity is back in software patents lobbying
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| Simon Gentry is back in software patents lobbying. Now his role is to push
| for legalisation of software patents via the creation of central patent court
| in Europe.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-69333/campaign4creativity-is-back-in-software-patents-lobbying
Term Extension “will damage Commission’s reputation”, top legal advisers tell
Barroso
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| Today, the leading European centres for intellectual property research have
| released a joint letter to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso,
| enclosing an impact assessment detailing the far reaching and negative
| effects of the proposal to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings.
| [...] “This Copyright Extension Directive, proposed by Commissioner Mccreevy,
| is likely to damage seriously the reputation of the Commission..."
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/06/18/term-extension-will-damage-commissions-reputation-top-legal-advisers-tell-barroso/
[ffii] McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty
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| Brussels, 13 May 2008 -- European Commissioner McCreevy is pushing for a
| bilateral patent treaty with the United States. This Tuesday 13 May in
| Brussels, White House and European representatives will try to adopt a
| tight roadmap for the signature of a EU-US patent treaty by the end of
| the year. Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on
| software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic.
|
| "TEC talks are the current push for software patents. The US want to
| eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The
| bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the
| Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look
| who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single
| European SME in there", says Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent
| policy specialist.
|
| The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) which comprises EU and US high
| level representatives put a substantive harmonisation of patent law on
| its agenda. Substantive patent law covers what is patentable or not. The
| attempt to impose the low US standards on Europe via the Substantive
| Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) process utterly failed at the World
| Intellectual Property Organisation. Also progress in the WIPO B+
| subgroup (without development nations) could not be reached.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/282000/
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