André Rebentisch from FFII, among other FFII members, supports this motion. As a recap, "[t]he European Parliament is about to vote for a regulation on the unitary patent, during its plenary session, on December 11th, 2012." We wrote about this at the end of November. ⬆
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Agonarch
2012-12-02 13:32:08
Actually, I tried the code out like you did but apparently I didn't succeed. Unfortunately my failed WP experiment got published. It is a call I relay from French organisation APRIL:
The purported goal to have a single patent covering the whole Union may
be praiseworthy. But this regulation, up to its very title, is actually
very deceiving. Indeed, its content leaves the European Union (EU) aside
in many aspects, leading to a fragmented patent system, which will be
untamable by the democratic bodies of the EU. Instead the “patent
microcosm” will gain amazing powers, while its governance has been
highly criticised, specially with regard to its practice of granting
software patents, against the letter and the spirit of European patent law.
You can change this fate by calling Members of the European Parliament
(MEPs), urging them to table, before December 5th at noon, two
compromise amendments.
It's not about Software Patenting but an 80 yro struggle to get a unified patent system in Europe. Unfortunately the Unitary Patent is not within the EU framework and dispowers the European Parliament. A prior compromise with essential articles between the Parliament and the Council of Ministers was overturned by the heads of state. I think April are right to ask the Parliament to table their two amendments, now that all red lines are crossed:
http://call.unitary-patent.eu/campaign/call2/unitary-patent-plenary-12-2012?setlang=en
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2012-12-02 14:07:03
The unitary patent looks to me like another step towards the global patent system, which together with Japan and the US can spread software patents through so-called trade agreements/treaties.
All signs indicate that Microsoft wants to "exit" the XBox business (not brand), but it does not want to publicly admit this as it would alarm staff and shareholders
Considering the huge proportion of Web requests that come from LLM bots (more so this past year or two), statCounter may struggle to justify the operating costs
The corporate media is projecting or signalling its own dishonesty when it tells us that Microsoft is a very "valuable" company while the data shows Microsoft is also a "market leader" in layoffs
For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
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Agonarch
2012-12-02 13:32:08
It's not about Software Patenting but an 80 yro struggle to get a unified patent system in Europe. Unfortunately the Unitary Patent is not within the EU framework and dispowers the European Parliament. A prior compromise with essential articles between the Parliament and the Council of Ministers was overturned by the heads of state. I think April are right to ask the Parliament to table their two amendments, now that all red lines are crossed: http://call.unitary-patent.eu/campaign/call2/unitary-patent-plenary-12-2012?setlang=en
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2012-12-02 14:07:03
http://techrights.org/2011/09/13/nafta-approach-and-swpats/ http://techrights.org/2011/09/17/letters-from-japan/ http://techrights.org/2011/10/01/upls-in-eu-council/