[ffii] Greens/EFA Conference on Software Patents (fwd)

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

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THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

PRESS INVITATION - Brussels, 11 September 2003

Final conference before Parliament vote:

Software patents: the choice is yours

You are invited to a press conference on software patenting taking place
next week on Wednesday 17 September in the European Parliament in
Brussels. Following the press conference experts from the fields of
software development and consumer protection will meet with economists and
scientists to discuss the impact the proposed European directive on the
patenting of computer implemented inventions will have on Europe's
software industry, research and consumers. A debate and vote on the
Parliaments' Report (McCarthy) on the proposed directive is scheduled for
the next Strasbourg plenary session, 22 - 25 September.


Press Conference: software patenting
15.00, Wednesday 17 September 2003
European Parliament Press Centre
Briefing room, PHS 01 A 50

Participants:
Daniel Cohn-Bendit Co-president Greens/EFA Group
Mercedes Echerer MEP (Austria)
Danielle Auroi MEP (France)
Neil MacCormick MEP (Scotland)
Jim Murray (Director BEUC)
Dr Paul Klint (President EAPLS)
Roland Dyroff (Suse)

The provisional programme of the conference (Wednesday 17 September 2003, 
16.00 - 18.30, European Parliament, Brussels, room PHS 5 B 001) follows. A 
finalised programme will be issued in due course.

*** Provisional Programme ***

SOFTWARE PATENTS: THE CHOICE IS YOURS
A conference chaired by Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP
Wednesday 17 September 16.00 -18.30
European Parliament Brussels, Room PHS 5 B 001

http://www.greens-efa.org


15.00   Press conference in briefing room

16.00   Introduction by Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP Chair of the Green/EFA Group 
in the European Parliament

16.10   Presentation of the scientists' petition: Dr. Paul Klint*, President 
of the European Association of Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS),
(http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2003/3/up4-3Petition.pdf)

16.30   Presentation of the economists' letter: Dr. Luc Soete, Founder of 
MERIT (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology)
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/technologie/0,39020809,39116150,00.htm

16.45   The European consumers' point of view: Jim Murray, Director of the 
BEUC

17.00   Tim Berners-Lee, Director World Wide Web Consortium, founder of the 
the world wide web web: online statement, debate and chat (video conference)*

17.30   Public administrations and open source software: Jens Mülhaus Member 
City Council city of Munich, Germany

17.45   European SMEs and software patents: Hakon Wium Lie, CEO of OPERA 
(multi-platform web browser, also used on cell-phones and PDAs including 
Motorola devices)
http://www.opera.com

18.00   Debate

18.30   Conclusion

Translation is available in all 11 official EU languages

Participation is free, however it is necessary to register by Monday 15 
September by email to lvandewalle@europarl.eu.int in order to get an access 
badge to the Parliament building

* To be confirmed



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Press Service of the Greens/EFA Group
in the European Parliament

Helmut Weixler
Head of Press Office

phone: 0032-2-284.4683
fax: 0032-2-284.4944
mobile phone: 0032-475-67 13 40
e-mail: hweixler@europarl.eu.int

-- 
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation       http://swpat.ffii.org/
240,000 votes 2000 firms against software patents    http://noepatents.org/

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