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<dt>1 September 2001</dt>
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<dd>
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<i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/pdf/em00003a.pdf">Link</a><br />
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The Revision Act shall be open for signature until the first day of
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September two thousand and one at the European Patent Office.
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</dd>
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<dt>24 April 2001</dt>
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<dd>
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<i>DE, Citizens</i><br />
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<a href="http://softwarepatente.net/index_e.html">Link</a><br />
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Symposium
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Softwarepatents: slowing down or accelerating the economy?
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</dd>
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<dt>25 March 2001</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/pr/pr10.html">Link</a><br />
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Christian Pierret - State Secretary of Industry<br />
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I am against software patents in Europe. It would kill innovation and promote juridical terrorism because multinational software publishers would multiply legal disputes against start-ups
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</dd>
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<dt>15 December 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/softpaten.htm">Link</a><br />
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Software patents - Commission closes consultations
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</dd>
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<dt>15 December 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, Citizens</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation/ec-consult.html">Link</a><br />
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More than 1100 mails were sent by European citizens.
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</dd>
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<dt>15 December 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, Citizens</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation/ec-consult.html">Link</a><br />
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This document constitutes the official EuroLinux response to
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the consultation on the harmonization of software patent Law launched
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by the European Commission.
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</dd>
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<dt>11 December 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>ES, Citizens</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.dit.upm.es/~joaquin/report_en.pdf">Link</a><br />
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Joaquin Seoane (proffesor of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
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and Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez report on software patents for the
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public consultation on the harmonization of software patent Law launched
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by the European Commission.
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</dd>
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<dt>5 December 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Patent Office</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/documents.htm">Link</a> <br />
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The Diplomatic Conference to revise the European Patent Convention
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publishes texts adopted by the Diplomatic Conference.
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<p />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/pdf/em00003a.pdf">
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ACT REVISING THE CONVENTION ON THE GRANT OF EUROPEAN PATENTS</a>
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<br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/pdf/em00022.pdf">
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CONFERENCE RESOLUTION</a>
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<br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/pdf/xm00004a.pdf">
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FINAL ACT OF THE CONFERENCE</a>
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<br />
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</dd>
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<dt>29 November 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/pdf/xm00004a.pdf">
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Link</a><br />
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<pre>
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FINAL ACT
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OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE CONTRACTING STATES
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TO REVISE THE EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION
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THE DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE,
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Assembled to revise the Convention on the twentyninth day of November
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two thousand, has drawn up and adopted the text
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of the Act revising the European Patent Convention (Revision Act)
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of a Diplomatic Conference Resolution.
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The Revision Act shall be open for signature until the first day of
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September two thousand and one at the European Patent Office.
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</pre>
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</dd>
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<dt>20 November 2000 </dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/overview.htm">Link</a><br />
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Diplomatic Conference to revise the European Patent Convention
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</dd>
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<dt>2 November 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>DE, Government - Citizens</i><br />
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<a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/patpruef/">Link</a><br />
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This article is to clarify some of the problems and inconsistencies,
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with which the author as a former software developer and current
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patent examiner at the German Patent Office is confronted when
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examining computer program related patent applications.
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</dd>
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<dt>27 October 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>DE, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/druckversion/0,1588,100120,00.html">Link</a><br />
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German Ministry of Justice demands that the computer program exception
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not be removed at the coming conference and threatens to opt out of
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the EPC otherwise
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</dd>
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<dt>19 October 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/softpaten.htm">Link</a><br />
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Software patents - Commission launches consultations<br />
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The European Commission announced the opening of an official
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consultation on the economic and social impact of software patents in
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Europe. In order to help European Authorities to conduct an open
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consultation, the EuroLinux Alliance of software publishers and non
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profit organisations debuts a public forum and a rich knowledge base.
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</dd>
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<dt>11 October 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Patent Organisation</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ma2.html">Link</a><br />
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IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO THE CONVENTION ON THE GRANT OF EUROPEAN PATENTS
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of 5 October 1973
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as last amended by Decision of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation
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of 11 October 2000
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</dd>
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<dt>14 September 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>DE, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=968937455.986">Link</a><br />
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Justus Kampp (Germany)
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</dd>
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<dt>7 September 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967730717.369">Link</a><br />
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Gilles Savary - Député Européen (France) <br />
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Je pense que nous devons distinguer les concepts de droits d'auteur
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des concepts de brevetabilité. Les droits d'auteur peuvent à la limite
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se concevoir, car ils sont la rémunératon d'une création et de sa
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diffusion; la brevetabilité est au contraire l'appropriation privée
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d'une diffusion qui est une diffusion extrêmement encadrée et donc
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privative pour le plus grand nombre.
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</dd>
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<dt>September 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.pro-innovation.org/rapport_brevet/brevets_plan-en.pdf">Link</a><br />
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Study by an official French organisation (Conseil Général des Mines)
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<p />
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The purpose was to determine how to ensure that intellectual property
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rights could continue, in the new dimate of information society, to
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meet their twofold objective : encouraging inovation and guaranteeing
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the sharing of knowledge.
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<p />
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Portions of this study were used by french government officials during
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European Commission meetings. For some they did not use the parts of
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the document that contained the most striking arguments against
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software patents.
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</dd>
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<dt>11 August 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>DE , Citizens</i><br />
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<a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/img/flags/de.png">Link</a><br />
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The Federation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)
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sends an open letter to the German Federal Ministery of Justice.
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</dd>
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<dt>2 August 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>DE, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/news/epue28/indexen.html">Link</a><br />
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Jörg Tauss - chairman of the German Parliamentary Commission on the New Media
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<p />
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In the circles of technological policy experts, you can often here people asserting that the patent system must be extended to certain areas of information technology, whose investments would otherwise not be sufficiently protected. This assertion has however until now always been touted like a self-evident truth, and nobody I know of ever cared to substantiate it in the light of facts from the German or European IT economy.
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<p />
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Even if the patent advocates succeeded in finding areas of information technology, in which patents are having or have had some positive effects, it would nonetheless still be necessary to investigate, whether these effects are not outweighed by possible detrimental side-effects of the patent system.
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<p />
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But while the legislative authorities are still completely clueless on this matter, the judicial authorities are already taking action, granting thousands of software patents and pressing for a change of the legal rules. We as legislators should therefore now take up these questions with highest priority.
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</dd>
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<dt>10 July 2000 </dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/conferen/propriete-int.htm">Link</a><br />
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Catherine Tasca - Ministre de la culture et de la communication
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<p />
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In a speach during the Conférence internationale sur " la gestion et
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l'utilisation légitime de la propriété intellectuelle ", Catherine Tasca
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speaks against software patents.
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</dd>
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<dt>10 July 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government </i><br />
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<a href="http://www.osslaw.org/lettre_brevets.html">Link</a><br />
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Jean-Yves LE DÉAUT - Député de Meurthe-et-Moselle
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<p />
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Jean-Yves LE DÉAUT sends a letter to the government against Software
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Patents.
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</dd>
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<dt>Summer 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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A directive was introduced by the European Commission (Directorate for
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Internal Market headed by Commissioner Bolkenstein and managed by John
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Mogg, one of the most prominent supporter of software patents at the
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European Commission).
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</dd>
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<dt>24 June 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967728526.722">Link</a><br />
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René TRÉGOUËT - Sénateur du Rhône
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Speaks against software patents.
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</dd>
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<dt>15 June 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, Citizens</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/pr/pr1.html">Link</a><br />
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The Eurolinux Alliance of European software companies and Open Source
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associations launches a pan-European petition to keep Europe free from
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software patents.
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</dd>
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<dt>18 May 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>DE, Citizens</i><br />
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<a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/penmi/bmwi-20000518/indexen.html">Link</a><br />
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About 40 representatives of german software companies, government departments, patent offices, universities and associations met today at the German Federal Ministry of Economy in Berlin in order to discuss the effects of software patents on the economy and on the information society.
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</dd>
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<dt>24 Februrary 2000</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Patent Office</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/ca/e/24_02_00_e.htm">Link</a> <br />
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A conference of the contracting states shall be convened to revise the
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European Patent Convention. The conference shall be held from 20 to 29
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November 2000 at the seat of the European Patent Organisation in
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Munich.
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</dd>
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<dt>1 December 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967730901.176">Link</a><br />
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Marylise Lebranchu - ecrétaire d'Etat aux petites et moyennes entreprises, au commerce et à l'artisanat
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<p />
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Explains the not so clear to understand position of the french government.
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</dd>
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<dt>1 December 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government </i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967730827.086">Link</a><br />
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Yves Cochet - Député
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Sends a question to the french government asking what position it
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will hold regarding software patents.
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</dd>
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<dt>November 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/utility.htm">Link</a><br />
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Amended proposal for a Directive on the protection of inventions by
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utility model.
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<p />
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This directive on utility models (i.e. short time patents) does not
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include any exception for computer programmes, thus allowing them. It
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has not been voted yet.
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</dd>
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<dt>18 November 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Committe of Regions</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967731125.396">Link</a><br />
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222 members of the European Committe of Region
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<p />
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Speak against software patents.
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</dd>
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<dt>24 June 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.freepatents.org/law/summary24.html">Link</a><br />
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Conférence intergouvernementale (France)
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<p />
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On June 24 and 25 1999 in Paris, France, the European member states of
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the Munchen convention met and discussed the software patent
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issue. They have decided to wait for one more year before taking any
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final decision regarding article 52.2, which says that computer
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programmes as such are not patentable. And French State Secretary
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Christian Pierret has stressed the necessity to study the economic
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impact of software patents on the software industry.
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</dd>
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<dt>8 July 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Patent Office</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/pubs/oj99/8_99/8_5729.pdf">Link</a><br />
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Notice of the President of the European Patent Office dated 8 July 1999 concerning the
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closing of the European Patent Office on 3 and 4 January 2000
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</dd>
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<dt>1 July 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Patent Office</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/pubs/oj99/8_99/8_5739.pdf">Link</a><br />
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Notice concerning the amendment of the Implementing
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Regulations to the European Patent Convention
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</dd>
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<dt>18 Mars 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>FR, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=968515758.659">Link</a><br />
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Pierre Laffitte - Sénateur
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<p />
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Pérennité des données administratives et libre accès des citoyens
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impliquent que les normes de communication utilisées par
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l'administration ne fassent pas l'objet de brevet et que pour l'accès
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à ces normes elles ne fassent ni l'objet de droit d'auteur, c'est à
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dire que les logiciels correspondants soient libres.
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</dd>
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<dt>12 February 1999</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/99.htm">Link</a><br />
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Patents: Commission outlines ambitious series of measures
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In this document, the European Commission confirms that there will be
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software patents. We also recommend the original French version which
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includes a sentence explaining that "software patents had a great
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effect on innovation" and that Microsoft is a good example of software
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patent holder.
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<dt>December 1997</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/1127.htm">Link</a><br />
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Commission presents a proposal for a Directive on the protection of
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technical inventions (utility models)
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<p />
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This directive on utility models (i.e. short time patents) does not
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include any exception for computer programmes, thus allowing them. It
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has not been voted yet.
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</dd>
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<dt>25 June 1997</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/558.htm">Link</a><br />
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Patents - Commission approves Green Paper
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This is the document which started it all. It was released in 1997.
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</dd>
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<dt>1996</dt>
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<dd><i>US, Government</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.iitf.doc.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm">Link</a><br />
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A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce
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<p />
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In this article (1996), Al Gore explains that all countries in the
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World should adopt the US patent law in order to benefit from the
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growth of electronic commerce.
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</dd>
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<dt>17 December 1991</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ma1.html">Link</a><br />
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<pre>
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CONVENTION ON THE GRANT OF EUROPEAN PATENTS (EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION)
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of 5 October 1973
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text as amended by the act revising Article 63 EPC of 17 December 1991
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and by decisions of the Administrative Council of the European Patent
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Organisation of 21 December 1978, 13 December 1994, 20 October 1995, 5
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December 1996 and 10 December 1998
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</pre>
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</dd>
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<dt>5 October 1973</dt>
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<dd><i>EU, European Commission</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ma3.html">
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EPC - PROTOCOL ON THE CENTRALISATION OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT SYSTEM AND ON ITS INTRODUCTION (PROTOCOL ON CENTRALISATION)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ma4.html">
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EPC - PROTOCOL ON JURISDICTION AND THE RECOGNITION OF DECISIONS IN RESPECT OF THE RIGHT TO THE GRANT OF A EUROPEAN PATENT (PROTOCOL ON RECOGNITION)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ma5.html">
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EPC - PROTOCOL ON PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT ORGANISATION (PROTOCOL ON PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES)</a><br />
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</dd>
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</dl>
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1996
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US
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Government
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http://www.iitf.doc.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm
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A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce
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In this article (1996), Al Gore explains that all countries in the
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World should adopt the US patent law in order to benefit from the
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growth of electronic commerce.
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June 1997
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EU
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European Commission
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/558.htm
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Patents - Commission approves Green Paper
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This is the document which started it all. It was released in 1997.
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December 1997
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EU
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European Commission
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/1127.htm
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Commission presents a proposal for a Directive on the protection of
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technical inventions (utility models)
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This directive on utility models (i.e. short time patents) does not
|
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include any exception for computer programmes, thus allowing them. It
|
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has not been voted yet.
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February 1999
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EU
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European Commission
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/99.htm
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Patents: Commission outlines ambitious series of measures
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In this document, the European Commission confirms that there will be
|
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software patents. We also recommend the original French version which
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includes a sentence explaining that "software patents had a great
|
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effect on innovation" and that Microsoft is a good example of software
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patent holder.
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18 Mars 1999
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FR
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Government
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http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=968515758.659
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Pierre Laffitte - Sénateur
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Pérennité des données administratives et libre accès des citoyens
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impliquent que les normes de communication utilisées par
|
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l'administration ne fassent pas l'objet de brevet et que pour l'accès
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à ces normes elles ne fassent ni l'objet de droit d'auteur, c'est à
|
||||
dire que les logiciels correspondants soient libres.
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|
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1 July 1999
|
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|
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EU
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EPO
|
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|
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http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/pubs/oj99/8_99/8_5739.pdf
|
||||
Notice dated 1 July 1999 concerning the amendment of the Implementing
|
||||
Regulations to the European Patent Convention
|
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|
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8 July 1999
|
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|
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EU
|
||||
EPO
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/pubs/oj99/8_99/8_5729.pdf
|
||||
Notice of the President of the EPO dated 8 July 1999 concerning the
|
||||
closing of the EPO on 3 and 4 January 2000
|
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|
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24 June 1999
|
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|
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FR
|
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Government
|
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|
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http://www.freepatents.org/law/summary24.html
|
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Conférence intergouvernementale (France)
|
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|
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18 November 1999
|
||||
|
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EU
|
||||
European Committe of Regions
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967731125.396
|
||||
222 members of the European Committe of Region
|
||||
|
||||
Speak against software patents.
|
||||
|
||||
November 1999
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
European Commission
|
||||
|
||||
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/utility.htm
|
||||
Amended proposal for a Directive on the protection of inventions by
|
||||
utility model.
|
||||
|
||||
This directive on utility models (i.e. short time patents) does not
|
||||
include any exception for computer programmes, thus allowing them. It
|
||||
has not been voted yet.
|
||||
|
||||
1 December 1999
|
||||
|
||||
FR
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967730827.086
|
||||
Yves Cochet - Député
|
||||
|
||||
Sends a question to the french government asking what position it
|
||||
will hold regarding software patents.
|
||||
|
||||
1 December 1999
|
||||
|
||||
FR
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967730901.176
|
||||
Marylise Lebranchu - ecrétaire d'Etat aux petites et moyennes entreprises, au commerce et à l'artisanat
|
||||
|
||||
Explains the not so clear to understand position of the french government.
|
||||
|
||||
24 Februrary 2000
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
European Patent Office
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/ca/e/24_02_00_e.htm
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
24 June 2000
|
||||
|
||||
FR
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967728526.722
|
||||
René TRÉGOUËT - Sénateur du Rhône
|
||||
|
||||
Speaks against software patents.
|
||||
|
||||
27 June 2000
|
||||
|
||||
http://swpat.ffii.org/penmi/epue-2000/indexde.html
|
||||
|
||||
Summer 2000
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
European Commission
|
||||
|
||||
A directive was introduced by the European Commission (Directorate for
|
||||
Internal Market headed by Commissioner Bolkenstein and managed by John
|
||||
Mogg, one of the most prominent supporter of software patents at the
|
||||
European Commission).
|
||||
|
||||
10 July 2000
|
||||
|
||||
FR
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.osslaw.org/lettre_brevets.html
|
||||
Jean-Yves LE DÉAUT - Député de Meurthe-et-Moselle
|
||||
|
||||
Jean-Yves LE DÉAUT sends a letter to the government against Software
|
||||
Patents.
|
||||
|
||||
10 July 2000
|
||||
|
||||
FR
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/conferen/propriete-int.htm
|
||||
Catherine Tasca - Ministre de la culture et de la communication
|
||||
|
||||
In a speach during the Conférence internationale sur " la gestion et
|
||||
l'utilisation légitime de la propriété intellectuelle ", Catherine Tasca
|
||||
speaks against software patents.
|
||||
|
||||
2 August 2000
|
||||
|
||||
DE
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/epue28/indexen.html
|
||||
Jörg Tauss - chairman of the German Parliamentary Commission on the New Media
|
||||
|
||||
In the circles of technological policy experts, you can often here people asserting that the patent system must be extended to certain areas of information technology, whose investments would otherwise not be sufficiently protected. This assertion has however until now always been touted like a self-evident truth, and nobody I know of ever cared to substantiate it in the light of facts from the German or European IT economy.
|
||||
|
||||
Even if the patent advocates succeeded in finding areas of information technology, in which patents are having or have had some positive effects, it would nonetheless still be necessary to investigate, whether these effects are not outweighed by possible detrimental side-effects of the patent system.
|
||||
|
||||
But while the legislative authorities are still completely clueless on this matter, the judicial authorities are already taking action, granting thousands of software patents and pressing for a change of the legal rules. We as legislators should therefore now take up these questions with highest priority.
|
||||
|
||||
11 August 2000
|
||||
|
||||
DE
|
||||
Citizens
|
||||
|
||||
http://swpat.ffii.org/img/flags/de.png
|
||||
The Federation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)
|
||||
sends an open letter to the German Federal Ministery of Justice.
|
||||
|
||||
7 September 2000
|
||||
|
||||
FR
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=967730717.369
|
||||
Gilles Savary - Député Européen (France)
|
||||
|
||||
Je pense que nous devons distinguer les concepts de droits d'auteur
|
||||
des concepts de brevetabilité. Les droits d'auteur peuvent à la limite
|
||||
se concevoir, car ils sont la rémunératon d'une création et de sa
|
||||
diffusion; la brevetabilité est au contraire l'appropriation privée
|
||||
d'une diffusion qui est une diffusion extrêmement encadrée et donc
|
||||
privative pour le plus grand nombre.
|
||||
|
||||
14 September 2000
|
||||
|
||||
DE
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements/view_html?key=968937455.986
|
||||
Justus Kampp (Germany)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
19 October 2000
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
European Commission
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/softpaten.htm
|
||||
Software patents - Commission launches consultations
|
||||
|
||||
The European Commission announced the opening of an official
|
||||
consultation on the economic and social impact of software patents in
|
||||
Europe. In order to help European Authorities to conduct an open
|
||||
consultation, the EuroLinux Alliance of software publishers and non
|
||||
profit organisations debuts a public forum and a rich knowledge base.
|
||||
|
||||
27 October 2000
|
||||
|
||||
DE
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.spiegel.de/druckversion/0,1588,100120,00.html
|
||||
German Ministry of Justice demands that the computer program exception
|
||||
not be removed at the coming conference and threatens to opt out of
|
||||
the EPC otherwise -
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
20 November 2000
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
European Commission
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/overview.htm
|
||||
Diplomatic Conference to revise the European Patent Convention
|
||||
|
||||
5 December 2000
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
EPO
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/documents.htm
|
||||
The Diplomatic Conference to revise the European Patent Convention
|
||||
publishes texts adopted by the Diplomatic Conference.
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/pdf/em00003a.pdf
|
||||
ACT REVISING THE CONVENTION ON THE GRANT OF EUROPEAN PATENTS
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/pdf/em00022.pdf
|
||||
CONFERENCE RESOLUTION
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/dipl_conf/pdf/xm00004a.pdf
|
||||
FINAL ACT OF THE CONFERENCE
|
||||
|
||||
15 December 2000
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
Citizens
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation/ec-consult.html
|
||||
|
||||
The following document constitutes the official EuroLinux response to
|
||||
the consultation on the harmonization of software patent Law launched
|
||||
by the European Commission.
|
||||
|
||||
15 December 2000
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
Citizens
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation/ec-consult.html
|
||||
|
||||
More than 1100 mails were sent by European citizens.
|
||||
|
||||
15 December 2000
|
||||
|
||||
EU
|
||||
European Commission
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/indprop/softpaten.htm
|
||||
Software patents - Commission closes consultations
|
||||
|
||||
25 March 2001
|
||||
|
||||
FR
|
||||
Government
|
||||
|
||||
http://petition.eurolinux.org/pr/pr10.html
|
||||
Christian Pierret - State Secretary of Industry
|
||||
|
||||
I am against software patents in Europe. It would kill innovation and promote juridical terrorism because multinational software publishers would multiply legal disputes against start-ups
|
||||
|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
|
||||
<!DOCTYPE html
|
||||
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
|
||||
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
|
||||
[<!ENTITY agenda SYSTEM "patents-agenda.en.xml">]>
|
||||
<html lang="en">
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<title>FSF Europe - Software Patents Agenda</title>
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
|
||||
<div> <!-- The header will be inserted here -->
|
||||
<center>
|
||||
[
|
||||
<!-- Please update as needed and keep it in alphabetical order -->
|
||||
English
|
||||
]
|
||||
</center>
|
||||
|
||||
&agenda;
|
||||
|
||||
</div> <!-- The footer will be inserted here -->
|
||||
|
||||
Last update:
|
||||
<!-- timestamp start -->
|
||||
$Date$ $Author$
|
||||
<!-- timestamp end -->
|
||||
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
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