[Patents] A resolution draft

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:54:19PM +0300, Ville Oksanen wrote:
> 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

and the total lack of any official study of the impact of the the
extension of patents to software on innovation, economy and social
structures.

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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