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E-Learning on Software Patents at the EPO
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| The European Patent Office (EPO) does not grant patents for computer programs
| ("software patents") or computer-implemented business methods that make no
| such technical contribution. In this respect the granting practice of the EPO
| differs significantly from that of the United States Patent and Trademark
| Office (USPTO). [IPKat comment: Although, after Bilski, it appears that the
| USPTO is now even more strict than the EPO]
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/06/e-learning-on-software-patents-at-epo.html
PATENT PROTECTION FOR SOFTWARE-RELATED AND BUSINESS-RELATED INVENTIONS IN
EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
http://www.management-forum.co.uk/ip/eventid/1121
Step forward for an EU patent?
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| The European Union has moved to address a decisive issue key to the creation
| of the hotly-contested European community patent. At the end of May, European
| Industry Ministers agreed to ask the European Court of Justice (EJC) whether
| draft plans to cut the costs of defending patents in a single European patent
| court would be compatible with EU law. Because the European Patent Office
| also grants patents that are valid in non-EU member states – such as Norway
| and Switzerland – the topic is under debate.
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http://www.eurobiotechnews.eu/service/start-page/top-news/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=10167&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12&cHash=640e1d5cc6
Recent:
A Different Point of View on Software Patents
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| More whining from the anti-software patent lot? Well, not actually. These
| words were written by Alison Crofts, who:
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| provides specialist IP advice and expertise in both litigation and
| commercial matters. This includes advising on: the creation, protection
| and exploitation of IP rights, including trade secrets, confidentiality
| issues, technology transfer agreements and licensing; the enforcement and
| defence of IP rights, including the conduct of litigation and arbitration
| proceedings; and IP aspects of joint ventures, co-ownership and
| transactions. Alison has an engineering background and has particular
| experience in the semiconductor, oil and gas, hi-tech and telecoms
| engineering industries.
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| In other words, she's likely to be for rather than against software patents.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/different-point-of-view-on-software.html
A new argument against SWPAT (thanks to environmental economics)
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| I've heard a lot of arguments against software patents (SWPAT) since Richard
| Stallman first raised the flag at the League for Programming Freedom, and
| almost all of the arguments are variations on a theme. A valid theme, but a
| theme that, after 20 years, has become a bit monotonous. Herman Daly puts
| that theme in a new context that has me all excited. He says
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| Stop treating the scarce as if it were non-scarce, but also stop treating
| the non-scarce as if it were scarce. Enclose the remaining commons of
| rival natural capital (e.g. atmosphere, electromagnetic spectrum, public
| lands) in public trusts, and price it by a cap-auction-trade system, or
| by taxes, while freeing from private enclosure and prices the non-rival
| commonwealth of knowledge and information.
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http://www.opensource.org/node/441
Patent expert Alison Crofts says EPLA is pushed by pro-software patents lobby
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| In its edition of IP Value 2007, the Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) was
| publishing an article about the Reform of European Patent System, where an
| expert (Alison Crofts from Dorsey & Whitney) mentions that the push for the
| EPLA is coming from the pro-software patents lobby:
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| The industry-based driving force behind the EPLA comes from the
| pro-software patent group as a way to ensuring that their software or
| potential software patents are fully enforceable across Europe.
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http://epla.ffii.org/forum/t-161586/patent-expert-alison-crofts-says-epla-is-pushed-by-pro-software-patents-lobby
IAM exclusive - Brimelow to quit as EPO President
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| Alison Brimelow will not seek reappointment as President of the European
| Patent Office when her current term expires at the end of June 2010, it was
| announced today. Rainer Osterwalder, Director of Media Relations at the EPO,
| told IAM this afternoon: "Yes, I can confirm that Alison Brimelow has
| informed the EPO staff today that she will not seek an extension of her
| contract which ends on 30 June 2010."
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/Blog/Detail.aspx?g=c54c7e9c-28e0-42cf-9e10-389812ad3e60
Software patents plot buried under amicus avalanche
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| The EPO's latest attempt to validate their widely criticized practice of
| software patenting has been met with a much stronger response than expected.
| This broad public interest comes in reaction to the referral on the
| patentability of software to the Enlarged Board of Appeal. The referral
| procedure allows interested third parties to file statements - Amicus Curiae
| Briefs - to present their views to the members of the board. The Enlarged
| Board of Appeals asked for such statements to be submitted by end of April
| and a total of 89 such statements have been published by the Register so far.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Software_patents_plot_buried_under_amicus_avalanche
European Patent Office refuses spanish amicus brief against software patents
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| Alberto Barrionuevo, CEO of the small spanish software company OpenTIA and
| ex-president of the FFII, had submitted an amicus brief to the Enlarged Board
| of Appeal in spanish. The European Patent Office has notified him that they
| are refusing his letter because it was not written in one of the 3 official
| languages of the EPO.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-160633/european-patent-office-refuses-spanish-amicus-brief-against-software-patents
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