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EC excludes software from patent law
News This statement appears to contradict what the EC said last year - that the EPO would continue to grant software patents that make a technical contribution, despite the European parliament's decision to reject the software patent directive. [25 May 2006]
Munich's Linux migration was held up by PR stunt
News In his book, No Lobbyists As Such, which was published on Tuesday, Mueller tells the story of how anti-patent campaigners successfully fought against the software patent directive, which was eventually rejected by the European parliament in July... [30 Mar 2006]
Patent system 'is stunting invention'
News Last year, the European Commission came close to approving a directive that would have made pure software applications patentable across Europe. Although the directive was eventually abandoned, campaigners fear that similar legislation could be... [03 Mar 2006]
Intellectual property laws set for UK scrutiny
News The proposed directive, which was adopted by the European Commission in July, would allow criminal sanctions against "all intentional infringements of an IP right on a commercial scale". European politicians are now considering another directive... [05 Dec 2005]
EU attempting to legalise patents 'by the back door'
News Florian Mueller, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters and the founder of nosoftwarepatents.com, warned on Thursday that if the Community Patent law follows the current practice in the European Patent Office (EPO), which continues to grant... [07 Oct 2005]
Open source is open to exploit, says EC tech chief
News A member of the audience pointed out that the European Commission was partly responsible for pushing through the software patent directive, which many believe will damage open source. Villasante responded that not everyone at the EC automatically... [01 Jun 2005]
Microsoft XML patent sparks outrage
News Although such a patent is less likely to be granted in Europe, which has a less liberal patent system than the US, there are concerns that this could change if the European software patent directive is adopted by the European parliament. [27 May 2005]
Europeans protest against software patents
News The 300 demonstrators walked past the buildings of the main EU bodies involved in the software patent directive - the EU Council, the European Commission (EC) and the European Parliament (EP). The demonstration in Brussels was timed to coincide... [21 Feb 2005]
Patents directive at the crossroads
News The European Parliament's request for the software patent directive to be started from scratch was ratified by senior members of the Parliament on Thursday, but campaigners from both sides are split on what will happen next. [18 Feb 2005]
Patent opponents take to the streets
News On 17 February, anti-patent campaigners will march past the buildings of the main EU bodies involved in the ratification of the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive - the EU Council, the European Commission (EC) and the European Parliament (EP). [15 Feb 2005]
EC pushes for software patent law
News The European Commission is pushing the EU Council to ratify the controversial software patent directive, sweeping aside the concerns raised last week by a European Parliament committee. The software patent directive is absolutely necessary," said... [14 Feb 2005]
'Draconian' anti-piracy heads for EU vote
News The European Parliament approved a directive on software patents only after making significant changes, the result of widespread protests by computer scientists, economists, tech companies and software developers. [20 Feb 2004]
EU software patent vote delayed again
News The directive has been developed to harmonise Europe's patent system based on best practices, but critics - including software developers, economists, computer scientists and small businesses - argued the version developed by the parliament's... [01 Dec 2003]
'Patent war' could be sparked by EU directive
News If the amended directive becomes law, the significant differences between the US and European approaches to software patenting raise the prospect of a patent war," the firm said in a statement. Competition considerations need to be built into a... [06 Oct 2003]
Bureaucrats rubber stamp EU software patent law
News He said if the "unacceptable" amendments were passed, the Commission could withdraw the Directive entirely and seek to achieve patent harmonisation through a renegotiation of the European Patent Convention. [25 Sep 2003]
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