[ANSOL-geral][alerta] Europeans Still Battling Software Patents

Lopo de Almeida lopo.almeida arroba sitaar.com
Sun Oct 19 17:29:02 2003


Europeans Still Battling Software Patents
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/18/1628217

    rimberg writes "The [0]FFII in the UK is issuing an alert for [1]all
    supporters to write to their MPs -- this weekend . In September the
    European Parliament voted for [2]strong restrictions on software
    patents. But these could be [3]set aside at a meeting of the EU's
    [4]Competitiveness Council of Ministers on 10 November. The ministers'
    meeting is to be "prepared" at a meeting of senior [5]patent officials
    from across Europe even sooner: this Thursday 23 October. Unless they
    can be convinced otherwise before 10 November, it is believed that UK
    ministers will push for the Council to adopt a [6]November 2002 draft
    text, which is even worse than the infamous [7]McCarthy report. The
    European Parliament's rules for second reading make it [8]very
    difficult for MEPs to fix a bad text from the Council. The FFII says it
    desperately need a lot of letters to go out to MPs this weekend to tell
    the Government how bad the November 2002 draft is. [9]More information
    at FFII-UK."
Links
    0. http://www.ffii.org.uk/
    1. http://www.ffii.org.uk/council.html
    2. http://swpat.ffii.org/journal/03/fsfr1010/index.en.html
    3. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39116709,00.htm
    4. http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/CouncilOfMinisters
    5.
http://register.consilium.eu.int/scripts/utfregisterDir/WebDriver.exe?MIval=result&MIlang=EN&key=REGISTER&ssf=DATE_DOCUMENT+DESC&fc=REGAISEN&srm=25&md=400&what=simple&ff_TITRE=working+intellectual+property+patents&ff_FT_TEXT=&ff_SOUS_COTE_MATIERE=&dd_DATE_REUNION=&button1=Search+Now
    6. http://www.ffii.org.uk/nov2002.html
    7.
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/amccarthy0302/index.en.html
    8.
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+RULES-EP+20030201+RULE-080+DOC+XML+V0//EN&HNAV=Y
    9. http://www.ffii.org.uk/council.html#further