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The Next Threat: the Community Patent
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| Unfortunately, it looks like the recent Symbian decision in the UK, which
| muddied the software patent waters yet further, could prove to be the thin
| end of the wedge. It's hard to know what can be done about these moves to
| create a Community Patent, since the idea itself is not without merit in
| terms of reducing European bureaucracy; but rest assured, as soon as it
| becomes clear, I'll be writing about it.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1856&blogid=14
The Anti-Intellectual Monopolies Trust
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| Maybe it's time to set up an Anti-Intellectual Monopolies Trust: anyone want
| to fund it?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/02/anti-intellectual-monopolies-trust.html
Recent:
McCreevy appeals for compromise as Community patent clock continues to tick
down
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| That the commissioner still feels he has to make this point seems to me to be
| a further confirmation that the hoped for breakthrough under the French
| presidency which people were talking about earlier this year is in real
| danger of not taking place. And if it does not happen with France in charge
| of the European Council, then the likelihood of it ever happening must be
| pretty remote.
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=d8855ff7-c91c-48d5-b073-8f1d8aa94507
Related:
Term Extension “will damage Commission’s reputation”, top legal advisers tell
Barroso
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| Today, the leading European centres for intellectual property research have
| released a joint letter to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso,
| enclosing an impact assessment detailing the far reaching and negative
| effects of the proposal to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings.
| [...] “This Copyright Extension Directive, proposed by Commissioner Mccreevy,
| is likely to damage seriously the reputation of the Commission..."
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/06/18/term-extension-will-damage-commissions-reputation-top-legal-advisers-tell-barroso/
[ffii] McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty
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| Brussels, 13 May 2008 -- European Commissioner McCreevy is pushing for a
| bilateral patent treaty with the United States. This Tuesday 13 May in
| Brussels, White House and European representatives will try to adopt a
| tight roadmap for the signature of a EU-US patent treaty by the end of
| the year. Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on
| software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic.
|
| "TEC talks are the current push for software patents. The US want to
| eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The
| bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the
| Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look
| who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single
| European SME in there", says Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent
| policy specialist.
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| The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) which comprises EU and US high
| level representatives put a substantive harmonisation of patent law on
| its agenda. Substantive patent law covers what is patentable or not. The
| attempt to impose the low US standards on Europe via the Substantive
| Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) process utterly failed at the World
| Intellectual Property Organisation. Also progress in the WIPO B+
| subgroup (without development nations) could not be reached.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/282000/
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