Basic Coordinates

Subject

EU Patent Legislation and Slovenian Information Society Policy Goals

Location

Ljubljana / Teleinfos (ICT trade fair) / Cankarjev dom - Conference hall E3 (capacity 200)

Time

Thursday 2004-04-22 14.00-18.00

Organisers:

• European Greens
• SMS (Slovenian youth party)

Conference Language:

English

Purpose:

raise awareness about important legislative decisions of the EU, assess the effects of various legislation proposals, find out about experiences and interests in Slovenia, sollicit Slovenian contributions to the ongonig debate, in particular to the FFII/MERIT conference and publication project

Draft Programme

Programme of the Conference by Darko KRAJNC

Opening Ceremony

Greeting speeches by representatives of organisers:

Panels

Software Patents in Action -- case studies

speeches from software and patent practitioners about their experiences with software patents, including patent granting, licensing and litigation as well as cases in related fields of laws (competition) where patents come into play.

• Richard Stallman
• Uros mesojedec - Monitor ?

Software Patent Directive Proposals -- Parliament vs Council

Questions

• What problems to the proposals try to address?
• How do the proposals solve them?
• How would the solutions work in practise (e.g. with reference to sample patents or case studies of the previous panel)

Patents, Knowledge Economy and Policy Goals

Questions

• What policy goals does the directive text address and how are they related to reality? E.g. Is slovenia a "low-cost economy" according to Recital 16 of the Directive?
• What are Slovenia's / the EU's policy goals in this area?
• To what extent can these goals be achieved by the proposed patent regimes?

Participants

• Sylvain Perchaud, economist, director of Europe Shareware, advisor and speaker of FFII on problems of proprietary software companies

Links

• Slovenian Information Infrastructure Mailing List