[ffii] Miscelleaneous Patent News (fwd)

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

FFII News -- For Immediate Release -- Please Redistribute
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A few small news items:

 - The NoEPatents Petition has 300,000 signatures

        http://www.noepatents.org/

 - The 

        Call for Action II
        http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/demands/

   is up for signing and has received support from a few members of the
   European Parliament and national parliaments. 

 - The EPO is no longer publishing full patent information, using
   DRM (password protected PDF files) and incomplete publication
   to protect its proprietary database vending partners, thus 
   making the

        FFII Software Patent Statistics
        http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/stats/

   of last year incomplete.
 
 - The Irish EU Presidency has "protecting software inventions" on its
   agenda for the May 17-18 summit

        http://swpat.ffii.org/news/recent/

  - FFII Planning for various events is moving ahead at

        http://plone.ffii.org/

    You can sign up for participation in some of these events through

        FFII participation system
        http://aktiv.ffii.org

    where you can also sign Call for Action II.
    The participation system has been upgraded.

  - USA Today has an interesting article

     Patents out of Control?
     http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-01-13-patentscover_x.htm


-- 
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation       http://swpat.ffii.org/
300,000 votes 2000 firms against software patents    http://noepatents.org/
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