Software Patents in Europe
From Techrights
Several large companies that include Microsoft, Philips and Nokia have been lobbying 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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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
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
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
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)
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)
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
