[Patents] A resolution draft

[Ville Oksanen Ville@Oksanen.net]

I'm planning to try to get something like the following resolution adapted
in Democrat Youth Community of Europe (www.demyc.org) and Young European
Peoples Party's (www.yepp.org) coming meetings, all comments/corrections
would be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,

Ville Oksanen
    Vice Chairman
    DEMYC

Resolution on computer software patents
Unanimously adopted by

We, the Democrat Youth Community of Europe,

1) Noting  that European Patent Office is planning to remove computer
programs from the list of the things which can not be patented of  in its
next conference in end of November

2) Further noting the still existing great amount of unsolved problems in
software patents like:
*  Inefficient  long period of protection (20 years)
* The lack of IT-expertise among the patent inspectors which would lead too
wide patent claims to be accepted as has happened in the United States
* The problem of anti-competitiveness; US software patents, if easily
transferable to EU, could substantially narrow competition in the
European Union, give dominant position to US corporations and have
negative influence among european IT start-ups
* The negative effect of patents to the interoperability of computer
programs

3) Taking into consideration the strong hostility among small and medium
size companies towards software patents in Europe

4) Having in mind the enormous economic importance of computer software
industry and its need for effective protection for its investments

5) DEMYC calls upon European political parties and the European Commission
(DG XV) to take immediate actions to delay all development on software
patents until the problems are correctly solved

6) DEMYC further calls taking actions to strengthen the European software
industry by other means like giving more resources on fight against the
software piracy and giving more support to European Open Standards-software
development