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No Software Patents! A Portlet for Plone.

Under the influence of the patent system and big industry lobbyists, the European Union is on the verge of making a huge mistake: to pass a law that would legalize software patents. With the use of this portlet, it is possible to contribute to the prevention of software patents.

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  • Published: 2005-04-19

Linus Torvalds receives Innovation Award

»The Economist« awards his innovation award for computing to Linus Torvalds

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  • Published: 2004-09-20

Domain registrars sued over URL patent

Two Internet entrepreneurs are suing Network Solutions and Register.com for allegedly infringing on their e-mail and domain naming patent.

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  • Published: 2004-01-17

Quantitative Patentuntersuchung in der Ct

Dem quantitativen Patentbegriff folgt eine Untersuchung der Computerzeitung C't, die in Heise Online angekündigt ist. IBM wird als "Patentmeister" gefeiert. Der Halbleiterhersteller "Intel hat im Jahre 2003 nahezu 50 Prozent mehr US-Patente erteilt bekommen als im Jahr zuvor. Spitzenreiter bleibt jedoch wie schon in den letzten elf Jahren IBM mit rund 3400 erteilten Patenten. Wie eine Auswertung für die am Montag erscheinende c't 2/04 auf dem Patentserver des US Patent Office ergab, hat Intel mit 1595 Patenten den Konkurrenten AMD (907 Patente) wieder weit überholt." Das Heise hier Patentinflation frenetisch bejubelt, zeigt, dass das Problembewusstsein für das aus dem Ruder geratene Patentsystem der Vereinigten Staaten nicht überall vorhanden ist, und es der Informationsarbeit bedarf. Übrigens sind z.B. Aussagen der Intel-Führung über die Probleme des amerikanischen Patentsystems schon lange dokumentiert. Der zugrunde liegende quantitative Patentbegriff, gleichgesetzt mit Innovationskraft, unterbietet das übliche Niveau des Heise Verlags. Zugleich verdeutlicht es die Notwendigkeit einen qualitativen Patentbegriff stärker zu kommunizieren.

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  • Published: 2004-01-10

EU & Korea on USTR Watch List

The US Trade Representative has placed South Korea on the "Priority Watch List", i.e. a list of countries which are failing to comply with commitments to enforce exclusion rights such as copyright. The EU is already on the same list, inter alia for failing to provide sufficient patent coverage for "biotechnological inventions". The US government has also raised objections to the European Parliament's decisions on software patents, but it is not clear when and whether this point will be added to the "Priority Watch List".

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  • Published: 2004-01-10

New Stylesheet for FFII look in Plone

Magnus Stalnacke has designed a cascading stylesheet (CSS) for FFII for use in the Plone environment.

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  • Published: 2004-01-09

Ireland and Software Patents

The ffii pages about the software patent situation in Ireland have been updated with some info about ths Irish presidency.

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  • Published: 2004-01-08

Experimental Site Created

The Vrijschrift team has created a plone site for ffii.org and is providing assistance to help us get started using it. This is a second start after our failure to make much use of ZopeCMF.

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  • Published: 2004-01-08
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