software patent directive
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment Software patents are a controversial field - as anyone who witnessed the ferocious opposition to the European Software Directive a couple of years ago will testify. But initial coverage may have overstated the importance of the ruling, because the... [13 Feb 2008]
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 European politicians are now considering another directive which would make violating IP a criminal offence, rather than merely a civil one. The proposed directive, which was adopted by the European Commission in July, would allow criminal... [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]
Florian Mueller
AS Profile The EU software patent directive was voted down earlier this year but the issue is far from resolved. Florian Mueller debuts on the Agenda Setters list for his role as an anti-software patent activist. [23 Sep 2005]
Linux founder defends trademark action
News Florian Mueller, who campaigned against the EU software patents directive and was recently hailed as one of the most important people in intellectual property, said on Monday trademarks and copyright are different to software patents. [22 Aug 2005]
'Relax immigration stance for industry's sake'
News Lynch also told the audience that he was pleased the European software patent directive had been rejected, dismissing it as "a very bad idea". Lynch, whose company makes software designed to manage and organise unstructured data, also discussed... [12 Jul 2005]
Europe spurns patent directive by huge majority
News A spokesman for the European parliament said 648 MEPs out of a total of 729 voted to reject the directive, which critics feared would widen the extent to which software could be patented. While many SMEs, free software advocates and software... [06 Jul 2005]
Lib Dems accused of patent hypocrisy
News European politicians representing parties including the UK's Liberal Democrats have been accused of acting against party policy in a recent vote over the software patent directive. Hartmut Pilch, the president of the Foundation for a Free... [24 Jun 2005]
Software patent loopholes have grown, say campaigners
News A key vote on the directive on the software patent directive has not only left loopholes in the legislation intact but may have even widened them, say campaigners. They said the current form of the directive will "give big business the opportunity... [22 Jun 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]
Software patent directive too lax, says UKPO
News Workshops held by the UK Patent Office (UKPO) around the country have found that the definition of technical contribution in the software patent directive would let through too many patents, according to the UKPO. [31 May 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]
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