EU endorses software patents

Monday 07 March 2005 3:03:31 am

In case you haven't yet heard the baaaad news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4325215.stm

Did eZ ever research how this will affect ezpublish?

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Monday 07 March 2005 3:47:36 am

It is still just a proposal:

The draft bill still needs the backing of the European Parliament - which is unlikely to rubber stamp the proposals.

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

Wednesday 09 March 2005 2:49:55 am

More information about:

Last 100 Granted European Software Patents
http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/txt/ep/last/last100.en.html

Software Patents in Action
[...]Collection of news stories and case studies showing how the granting, licensing and litigation of patents is affecting players in the software field.[...]
Some Well Documented Cases:

http://swpat.ffii.org/patente/wirkungen/index.en.html

More information in many languages:

http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/

How to help:
How to donate to FFII
http://www.ffii.org/geld/konto/index.en.html

Call for Action II
http://www.ffii.org/swpat/papers/europarl0309/demands/index.en.html

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Wednesday 09 March 2005 3:12:28 am

In the EU we live in a democracy which means we have a voice... I would ask that people write to their MEPs. Trust me they would love to hear from you.. After all "you" are the reason they are there, right?

To find out who to write to and explain your point.
UK: http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/txukmeps/txmain.html

I could not find a full list... maybe someone could post a full list for all member countries.

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Wednesday 09 March 2005 5:00:13 am

As I'm native German speaker, I looked into that:

Coremedia requested a patent for separation of content and style, i.e. use of CSS

Then there are a few patents on searching a DB (like that isn't obvious)

SAP holds a patent on storing content in either a DB or an Archive (where's the difference?)

Metadata patents (automatically extract metadata to generate pages).

Matsushita holds a patent "Content management method and content management apparatus".

Sun holds "Dynamic management of content served by an information service" (!)

Apple holds a patent on a mechanism to synchronize data betweena client and a server.

Essentially, all of those patents seem really braindead.

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