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.
The simple activity of voting and counting ballots does not require thousands of complex machines with hundreds of millions of transistors and hundreds of millions of lines of code
The footage is a bit jittery (taken with a phone apparently, and there's no tripod available), but the sound is OK and the words (in Spanish) are comprehensible
Comments
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/