WE wrote about ACT before [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] and also reported the abuse they engage in to the US FTC.

Probably on behalf of their paymasters at Microsoft, they are still trying to make European law hostile towards Free(dom) software, as the following new article shows.

The lack of a Europe-wide Community patent poses "incredible challenges" for small businesses and undermines the EU's goal of becoming the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, according to a new study.

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To bypass the EU regulatory framework, many innovative companies and especially SMEs end up "skipping" the European market by applying for a patent in the US, Jonathan Zuck of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) told EurActiv.

Unless Europe locks these people out of Europe, it will continue to be abused by foreign companies that fight against autonomy. ⬆