Red Hat and MySQL back European
anti-patent campaign
-from cbronline.com,
see;
nosoftwarepatents.com
"software patents.. anti-competitive purposes, stifle innovation"
Geneva Declaration on the Future of the
World Intellectual Property Organization
(260KB .PDF)
-from cptech.org,
Consumer Project on Technology
see;
Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO
also;
Patent Lawsuit Casts Shadow Over The Future of Java
with
Settlement
also;
Software Patent Law: United States and Europe Compared
also;
Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding
&
A Few Research Links
also;
Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Anticompetitive practices.. enormas costs.. retard innovation"
Public Patent Foundation
-from pubpat.org
see;
at PUBPAT's Request, Patent Office Rejects Microsoft's FAT Patent
also;
Software patents: Brussels threat to our digital freedom
also;
FFII.. Patents.. Europe
&
W3C Patent Policy
&
Web Inventor Warns...
also;
How to fight software patents - singly and together
"Representing the Public's Interests in the Patent System"
EFF: The Patent Busting Project
-from eff.org/patent/contest
also;
FFII: Software Patents in Europe
&
W3C Patent Policy
"nominations.. ten patents that deserve to be revoked.. invalid"