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The Fight of His Life
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| Call him Dr. No. Locked in a bitter dispute over how he can use the fruits of
| his research, Bob Shafer is asking the same question the courts are now
| grappling with: Just what can be patented, anyway?
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http://www.law.com/jsp/iplawandbusiness/PubArticleIPLB.jsp?id=1202430332016
Interview with Pirate Party Leader: "These are Crucial Freedoms"
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| In the same way, the Pirate Party opposes patents -- especially in software,
| but also in other areas.
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| "All patents, at their base, are innovation inhibitors," he
| maintains. "Patents delayed the industrial revolution by thirty years. They
| delayed the advent of the North American avionics industry by another thirty
| years, until the first world war broke out, and the US government confiscated
| the patents. It delayed radio for five years." Today, he suggests, advances
| in electric cars and eco-friendly infrastructure are similarly blocked by
| patents.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3825206
"The European Patent Office is a Corrupt, Malicious Organisation Which Should
Not Exist"
--Richard Stallman
“Staff at the European Patent Office went on strike accusing the organization
of corruption: specifically, stretching the standards for patents in order to
make more money.
“One of the ways that the EPO has done this is by issuing software patents in
defiance of the treaty that set it up.”
--Richard Stallman
Recent:
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
The Pirate Party
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| The Pirate Party has a constructive and reasoned proposal for an alternative
| to pharmaceutical patents. It would not only solve these problems, but also
| give more money to pharmaceutical research, while still cutting public
| spending on medicines in half. This is something we would like to discuss on
| a European level.
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| Patents in other areas range from the morally repulsive (like patents on
| living organisms) through the seriously harmful (patents on software and
| business methods) to the merely pointless (patents in the mature
| manufacturing industries).
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| Europe has all to gain and nothing to lose by abolishing patents outright. If
| we lead, the rest of the world will eventually follow.
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http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english
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