Software Patents in Europe
From Techrights
Several large companies that include Microsoft, Philips and Nokia have been lobbying the European Parliament and the EPO for software patents in Europe. This poses a threat to Free/libre software and we've covered this in the posts beneath.
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[edit] 2013
- As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found
- Software Patenting Under Attack in Germany
- The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
- With Unitary Patent Scheme, EPO Pushes Hard for Software Patenting (More Leech Income)
[edit] 2012
- The Aftermath of ‘Unitary’ Patent
- ‘Unitary Patent’ Helps Microsoft Extend Linux/Android Patent Extortion to Europe
- Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Glyn Moody, April, FSFE and Many Others Oppose Unitary Patent (Vote is Today)
- Stop Software Patents in Europe, Polish Government May Already Repeat Its Anti-ACTA Action
- French National Assembly Views Unitary Patent as Illegal
- December 11th an Opportunity for Politicians to Legitimise Software Patents in Europe
- Attempts to Make Unitary Patent Mess Before Xmas
- European Free Software Activists Fight Against Software Patents Loopholes: Unitary Patent and FRAND
- Software Patents Through ‘Union’ in Europe
- Europe to Push for Unitary Patent (Software Patents Loophole) at 7 PM CET Tonight
- Betrayals in Europe Over Software Patents
- Contact European Parliament Members Today to Stop Software Patents
- Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such
- Contacting Politicians to Stop Software Patents in Europe
- Call for Action Against Software Patents in Europe
- Fighting the Unitary Patent Like We Fought ACTA in Europe
- European Council Slows Down Software Patents
- Germany Against Software Patents
- Europe’s Unitary Patent Siege
- EU Unitary Patent: Status Update
[edit] 2011
- Software Patents: How Europe Lost Its Sovereignty
- European Commission Betrays the European Public With Stance on OOXML and Unitary Patent
- EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
- Patent Lawyers Push for Software Patents, Poorly
- Commissioner Barnier: Enemy of European Development
- Unitary Patent is Not a Done Deal
- Software Patents in the EU Become a Central Concern Again
- Software Patents Come to Europe Through the Back Door
- New Reports Antagonise Patents Madness in Europe
- ‘Pulling an ACTA’ to Legalise Software Patents in Europe
- Lehne and the Polish Presidency Continue to March for Software Patents in Europe
- Microsoft Pushing Hard for Software Patents in Europe While Halliburton Makes British/European Patent Lawyers Happy
- Halliburton in a War With European Patent Law
- EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene
- Polish EU Presidency Helps Global Patent Regime
- Europe Patent Law Under Pressure, APRIL Gets Increasingly Involved
- Techrights Commends Spain and Italy for Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe
- Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier and Polish Presidency Named and Shamed for Patent Policy
- Microsoft Lobbyists Still Push for Software Patents in Europe
- FFII Warns About Latest Patent Threats in Europe
- France and the United Kingdom Want to Drown in Software Patents Sea of Risk
- Europe’s Software Patents Problem Summarised
- Europe Has Judges Weigh in on Software Patents
- Europe’s Peanut Gallery Wants Software Patents
- Breaking European Patent Law With the Benelux Court Hack
- Klaus-Heiner Lehne Blasted for Conflict of Interest, Florian Müller Shares His Interests
- Elop-led Nokia and Bill Gates Lobby Europe Amid New Push Ushering in Software Patents
- The FFII Undresses the European Union
- The FFII Reports Bad Faith at the European Patent Office
- ”In Europe Microsoft Have Been Putting Significant Resources in Backing The Setting Up Of the European Patent Office“
- Triumph Against Software Patents in Europe as EU Treaty Brought Up
- Spain is Still Against the EU Patent
- European Court of Justice Can Defend European Software Companies From Patents
- Europe Enters the Patents Cold War
- April/End Software Patents/FFII Ask European Parliament to Postpone Enhanced Cooperation on Unitary Patent After CJEU Opinion
- Patent Lobbying in Europe
[edit] 2010
- McCreevy’s Successors Are Getting Their Way With Software Patents in Europe
- Using Financial Blackmail to Convince Spain to Allow Software Patents to Enter Europe
- Microsoft Lobbyists Are Still Duping EU Politicians for Software Patents to be Legalised
- New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union) While UK’s Tim Berners-Lee Opposes (F)RAND
- EU Plan to Potentially Welcome Software Patents is Finally Defeated
- Michel Barnier Still Confused, Spreading Misconception About Patents and ”Competitiveness“
- Michel Barnier Still Has an Agenda Hostile Towards European Software Developers
- Microsoft’s Pressure for Software Patents in Europe Carries On
- European Patent Law is Being Abducted by Big Business and Patent Lawyers
- European Court of Justice Advocates General Says Pan-EU Patent Court Would Violate the Principles of EU Founding Treaties
- EU: Advocate General on Community Patent and Software Patents Still at Stake
- “EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
- UPLS is on the Rocks
- European Lesson About Novell’s Software Patents, Germany Seemingly Continues to Allow Software Patents
- Who to Blame for Germany’s Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
- Siemens Betrays Germans by Legalising Software Patents in Europe
- FFII and End Software Patents (ESP) Respond to Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) Regarding Software Patentability
- Patents Shred Europe’s Democracy to Pieces
- Canonical Needs to Tell Ubuntu Users How Much It Paid MPEG-LA for Patent ‘Protection’
- ‘IP’ People Want to Add Software Patents to New Zealand and Europe
- Why Klaus-Heiner Lehne Lobbies for Software Patents (Money of Course)
- USPTO Starts Rejecting Software Patents While Germany Mistakenly Overrides the Law and Approves Microsoft’s
- EU Patent System Overrides European Court of Justice
- Microsoft and Its Front Group, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), Organise Software Patents Lobby Events in Europe
- Patents Roundup: America, Europe and Asia Share a Problem with Software Patents
- Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
- How Patent Trolls Harm Free Software and How the European Parliament Plans to Make the Trolls Even Stronger
- Microsoft Tries to Pollute Standards with Software Patents Where It is Illegal
- Patents Roundup: Neelie Kroes and Microsoft Patents Revisited, Steve Ballmer Lobbies Obama on Patents, Apple Wants Linux Phones Embargoed (Using Patents)
- Patents Roundup: Commission Sells Out to Microsoft; Apple and RIM Sued by Gates-backed Kodak
- “Kroes Was Quite Clueless About Software Patents and UPLS,” So the Commission Made a Microsoft Patent Deal Last Week
- OSS Watch Pretends That Microsoft’s Attacks on Free Software Do Not Exist
[edit] 2009
- ‘Microsoft Press’ Acknowledges Microsoft’s Free Software-Hostile EU Deal
- European Commission Unable to Defend Free Software from Microsoft Patent Racket
- Patents Roundup: Nokia and Apple Cross Swords, British Patent System Becomes Form of Tax, Israel Besieged by Software Patents
- Microsoft Gets Its Way in the European Commission
- Patent Imperialism Threatens Europe
- McCreevy’s Suicidal Patent Battle to Harm Europe Glorified in Irish Press
- FFII: Swedish Presidency Tries to Sneak Software Patents Into Europe
- Tim Berners-Lee: “Software Patents Are a Terrible Thing”
- ACTA is on Europe’s Agenda (Next Monday) as Patent Devils Lurk
- Patent Tax and Microsoft Tax in Europe: An Update
- Patents Roundup: Threat of Software Patents in Mexico, Sweden; Microsoft Still Fights with (and for) Software Patents
- European Commission Keeps Getting Filled with Microsoft Cronies
- The ‘Microsoft of Europe’ Instructs Oracle on Free Software
- IBM and Open Forum Europe Address European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Fiasco
- European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Corrupted by Microsoft et al, Its Lobbyists
- Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Software Patents Trick in the EU Revisited and Google Patents Spellchecker
- Parties Behind Complaints Against Microsoft in EU Not Pleased
- Glyn Moody on European Commission’s Inability to Defend Free Software in Face of Microsoft Lies
- Microsoft Wins Free Software-Hostile Deal in Europe, Its Front Group ACT Pleased
- FSFE Wants the European Commission to Stop Microsoft’s Racketeering
- Microsoft Spreads Intellectual Monopoly Law in Europe and Arab States; EFF Takes on Acacia
- European Commission Learns Whether Patents Harm Europe
- Likewise: Microsoft Embraces and Extends Samba with Software Patents?
- Microsoft Takes Software Patents Agenda Up a Notch
- Microsoft Still Lobbies for Software Patents in Europe, via ACT/Jonathan Zuck
- Why the United Patent Litigation System Could Bring Software Patents to Europe
- Formal Complaint Against European Commission for Harbouring Microsoft Lobbyists
- After 3 Months, Europe Lets Microsoft-Influenced EU Panel be Seen
- Details of Microsoft’s Lobbying in Europe
- Is the United Kingdom Immune to Software Patents? Continental Europe is… for Now… Sort of…
- 2 Months and No Disclosure from the European Parliament
- Knuth Tells Europe to Let Him “Innovate in Peace” (Without Software Patents)
- Software Patents Want to Enter Europe from the Back Door
- General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
- Charles McCreevy is Still Advancing Software Patents in Europe
- Patents Roundup: Attack on Science, Lobby for Software Patents in EU and India, More Rebellion
- Microsoft Unleashes Its Paid Guns to Fight European Regulators
- Software Patents Roundup: Protests in the EU, OLPC Suffers, Microsoft Seeds More Patent FUD
- The Latest Patent Comedy from Europe
- Revolt Against Software Patents in Europe
- Patents Roundup: Microsoft Likes Patent Deform, OIN to Strike Back, EU Still Besieged for Software Patents
- The Question of Software Patents without Democracy
- Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
- Does the European Commission Harbour a Destruction of Free/Open Source Software Workgroup?
- European Patent Office Continues March for Software Patents
- Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
- European Open Source Software Workgroup a Total Scam: Hijacked and Subverted by Microsoft et al
- Microsoft Uses Pressure Groups to Push Software Patents Into Europe
- Patents Roundup: Disintegration, EU in a Limbo, Applecrosoft Patents and Scientists’ Rebellion
- Patents Roundup: Acacia Extortion, European Lobby, and Failed Systems
- Patents Roundup: Software Patents vs. Microsoft, Novell (And Others)
[edit] 2008
- Microsoft & Paid Lobbyists Attack Open Source in European Interoperability Framework
- Latest Update on Microsoft’s Plans with Software Patents
- European Patent Office: From Riot to Order?
- Microsoft Lobbyist Jonathan Zuck Infiltrates EU Summit on Intellectual Monopolies
- Failing SCO, Microsoft Eyes EU and Software Patents
- Symbian is Not About Freedom, It’s About DRM and Software Patents (Update)
- Novell’s Michael Meeks Gets Software Patent from the UK
- Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Nokia, and McCreevy for Software Patents
- Software Patents Riot Spreads to Four Continents
- The Software Patents Situation and How It Affects Free Software
- Microsoft Lobbyists Abound for Software Patents in Europe
- Microsoft Proxies and Software Patents in Europe
- EU Lobbyists Awaken, Patent Trolls Abound
- Microsoft Still Insists Free Software Tax in Europe
- IAM Denies Software Patents Knock on Europe’s Back Door
- Software Patents in Europe and Microsoft’s Huge Lobbying Budget as of Late
- Software Patents Roundup: EU’s Back Door; Microsoft Sued Again
- Latest Attempt to Expand Software Patents to Europe; Microsoft Shenanigan Revisited
- UK-IPO Approves Software Patent as Microsoft and its Lobbies Pressure for Software Patents in EU
- Clarification on MySQL and Software Patents
- Europe to Increase Use of Free Software, Lobbyists Try to Force Software Patents Onto Europe
- Richard Stallman Explains Software Patents (Video)
- Microsoft Lobbyists Are Again Hijacking Voices, Fighting for Software Patents
- Microsoft, Siemens and Phillips Named for Software Patents in Europe
- The State of Software Patents in the US, Resistance in Europe
- Lobbyists Among the Causes for Software Patents in Europe
- Trolltech + Nokia = Bad News
- America Invades Britain (with Software Patents)
[edit] 2007
- The Absurdity of Software Patents Unseen in a Money-minded World
- Europe Says No to Software Patents (Videos)
- Is Sun Microsystems Against Software Patents?
- It’s Not Over in Europe; WIPO Wants Some More Open Source Whipping
- Europe, Intellectual Property, and Software Patent Stories
- Might Europe Reverse Accidental Discrimination Against Samba?
- The Agreement in Europe Could Drive Free Software Projects to Other Countries
- Articles About Microsoft Dropping a GPL/Samba Bomb on Europe
- Is Europe Being Assimilated to America, Patent-wise?
- The Free Software Community Warns the EU About the Microsoft Agreement
- The Fourth ‘Patent Deal’ was with Europe… and the Sixth Deal That Won’t be
- More on Why the Agreement in Europe Simply Sucks!
- A Victory in Europe for Microsoft’s Absurd Patents and So-called ‘Innovation’
- Videos: EFF’s Patent Busting Leader, Patents in Europe, and More Patent FUD
- No Software Patents in Europe (Bad Ideas Rejected Yet Again)
- The Xenix Patent Front and Software Patents in Europe
c/f Michel Barnier
