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RSS software patentsSoftware patents hit Polish blockade
News Opponents of software patents claimed on Wednesday that Poland had delivered a serious blow to attempts to make software patentable in Europe. Florian Mueller, a German software developer and campaigner against software patents, believes that the... [18 Nov 2004]
"Software patents are a way of life"
News Open source programmers might not like the idea of software patents, but those critics would be better off adapting to the fact that they're not going away, Hewlett-Packard's top Linux executive said on Tuesday. [16 Feb 2005]
'Europe needs [software] patents'
News With the European Parliament poised to begin deliberating on software patents again, organisations on both sides of the argument are continuing to push their case. EICTA, the European Information and Communication Technology Association, wrote to... [01 Nov 2004]
EISA to lobby EC over software patents
News Tim Conway, director of the Information Age Unit at the CSSA and EISA delegate, said the association was in the process of drafting a directive on software patents. We want software patents as they protect the underlying business innovation," he said. [23 Feb 2000]
Euro software patents delayed
News Later in November, an Austrian politician warned the Austrian Minister of Commerce and Industry that the draft directive on software patents could cause 'lasting damage' to small and medium-sized IT companies. [09 Dec 2004]
Microsoft and Skype polarised over software patents
News The ongoing row over software patents - as well as the role intellectual property rights (IPR) might eventually end up playing in China - surfaced again this week with telco BT seemingly ending up taking the middle ground between two names rarely... [29 Nov 2005]
Linux group lashes out at EU software patents
News Fears of extra costs for users and restriction on innovations have forced Linux users to join forces to fight a European Commission (EC) directive on software patents. At the heart of the debate is a widespread fear that Europe - one of the few... [04 Aug 2000]
Tech bosses rebel on EU software patents
News The controversial EU software patents directive that drew strong feelings from the tech community and spent months at the hands of at the EU has now drawn the ire of several top-level technology bosses. [27 Nov 2003]
Europeans protest against software patents
News Hundreds of people from across Europe gathered in Brussels on Thursday to demonstrate against software patents. This is no longer just about software patents, it's now also about democratic legitimacy. [21 Feb 2005]
Kilroy-less UKIP lashes out at software patents
News The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has slammed those pushing for software patents in the European Union. Two days before the UK's General Election, UKIP also attacked rival political parties for failing to understand the software patent issue and the... [04 May 2005]
Software patent vote delayed by protests
News The European Parliament has delayed voting on a controversial software patents directive, following protests and criticism by computer scientists and economists. Software patents have been likened to allowing a monopoly on the ideas behind stories... [02 Sep 2003]
Open source protestors take to the streets
News Two groups, angry at a proposed change to European law on software patents, are taking their complaints onto the streets in order to voice their concerns. Their objective is to protest against software patents, before a vote on the patents... [26 Aug 2003]
EU attempting to legalise patents 'by the back door'
News The European Commission is attempting to legalise software patents through the introduction of the EU Community Patent, according to an anti-patent campaigner. Florian Mueller, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters and the founder of... [07 Oct 2005]
Red Hat to fund free patents for open source
News Two Linux allies are taking a leaf out of their opponents' book as they try to prevent software patents from dragging open source into a mire of patent-infringement lawsuits. The measure of success for those efforts will be if the pools of open... [11 Aug 2005]
EU software patent vote delayed again
News Voting on a controversial European Union software patents proposal has been delayed until April, amid intensified lobbying against the proposal by multinational tech companies and European mobile phone makers. [01 Dec 2003]
