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Saturday, 15 January 2005 21:01 |
Help to avoid patents in Europe!
For the last few years the European Patent Office (EPO) has, contrary to the letter and spirit of the existing law, granted more than 30000 patents on rules of organisation and calculation claimed in terms of general-purpose computing equipment, called "programs for computers" in the law of 1973 and "computer-implemented inventions" in EPO Newspeak since 2000. Europe's patent movement is pressing to legitimate this practise by writing a new law. Although the patent movement has lost major battles in November 2000 and September 2003, Europe's programmers and citizens are still facing considerable risks. Here you find the basic documentation, starting from the latest news and a short overview. more here
Read also this OLD (14 years old!) whitepaper "Against Software Patents"
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 15 January 2005 21:12 )
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