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#European alliance defending your right to free and competitive software creation since 1999 #Free #SoftwareMarkets #OpenStandards Educating about #PatentSystem
Berlin, Germany
Joined November 2008
FFII call to donate to save Europe from Software Patents https://t.co/D89V3K61NK
#swpat #bundestag #europe #patents #germany
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FFII is calling on urgent donations to crowdfund a Constitutional Complaint against the third attempt to impose software patents in Europe, via the Unified Patent Court (UPC). Software Patents thro…
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Problem 2: Litigation will be more expensive, especially for defending SMEs https://t.co/dNA5I5KaqG
#upc #bundestag
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This is the FFII’s answer to the 3 weeks ‘private’ consultation organised by the German Ministry of Justice, which ran till the 3rd of July 2020. Since the procedures around this …
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Open Letter to the German Greens on UPC and software patents: don’t betray your voters and your promises, or you will regret it https://t.co/lPGNVsyXLV
#upc #swpat @GreensEFA @GermanGreens
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Dear Members of the German Greens in the Bundestag,Dear Members of the Greens in the European Parliament, There is a vote this afternoon at 3PM on the ratification by Germany of the UPC. The softwa…
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Is Germany competing with Hungary and Poland on the “Worst Rule of Law Award” with its rushed ratification of the Unitary Patent? https://t.co/bOeTol2iA0 via @FFII @zoobab
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Germany will violate 3 international agreements with the Unitary Patent, says FFII https://t.co/HqQgwMOWMD
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Germany set to vote on the Unitary Patent Court (UPC), a proposal that would kill jobs and innovation in software. Open Letter to the Bundesrat: “Germany will violate 3 international agreemen…
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Germany will violate 3 international agreements with the Unitary Patent, says FFII https://t.co/zEFqDpH195
#upc #swpat #germany #brexit #patent #bundesrat
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Germany set to vote on the Unitary Patent Court (UPC), a proposal that would kill jobs and innovation in software. Open Letter to the Bundesrat: “Germany will violate 3 international agreemen…
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FFII oppose the third attempt to impose software patents in Europe via the UPC, patent law should not operate in the isolation and silence of a Trappist Monastry https://t.co/VPpGd0EK6V
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Here we go again - another call from the BVerfG to President Steinmeier awaits. Another three or four years for a decision. Does this give industry the certainty it needs?
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"In the Hansard for 9 March 2017 (Plenarprotokoll 18/221) mentioned in the BVerfG decision, there is a speech by Renate Künast which clearly suggests opposition by the B90/Grünen fraction"
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The German government has been acting fast since the Federal Constitutional Court declared void the German ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement in March. It submitted a new draft bill...
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When exactly did #germany become "banana republic" run by lawyers and lobbyists?
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This is the FFII’s answer to the 3 weeks ‘private’ consultation organised by the German Ministry of Justice, which ran till the 3rd of July 2020. Since the procedures around this …
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Brexit: FFII rejects the proposal by the German Ministry of Justice to present the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA) to the German Parliament for ratification https://t.co/dNA5I5KaqG
#upc #consultation #patent
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This is the FFII’s answer to the 3 weeks ‘private’ consultation organised by the German Ministry of Justice, which ran till the 3rd of July 2020. Since the procedures around this …
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Unitary Patent: Germany is ignoring Brexit, European law, its Constitutional Court and Italians https://t.co/xoTpdn6EmE
#upc #swpat #brexit #europe #patent #italy
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[ Press release – Germany / Europe / Italy / Economy / Patent ] Brussels and Berlin, 15th June 2020 – The German government is pushing for a second vote on the Unitary Patent at the Bun…
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"The Unitary Patent is another attempt to validate and expand software patents in Europe. Software development is a key sector on which whole industries depend. The agreement would reserve to the CJEU only a say in a few limited technical matters."
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The March ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) in Germany that the German ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) was void because it didn’t get the required two-thirds...
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Greens voted against the Unitary Patent at EU level, but voted for it at the German level, so much for a pan-european party "This will likely depend on the German Greens. In the past they have [...] voted in favour."
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The March ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) in Germany that the German ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) was void because it didn’t get the required two-thirds...
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European Parliament copy/paste EPO's technical crap "if a claim relates either to a method involving technical means or to a device, its purpose, considered as a whole, is technical in nature and it is therefore not excluded from patentability"
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COVID-19 tracing apps threatened by Blyncsy software patent https://t.co/sQ95eTNPRm
#swpat #trolls #uspto #COVID19 #tracing
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COVID tracing apps are now under the threat of a software patent in the United States, granted to Blyncsy, a company from Utah. This is the posterchild of an American patent office willfully ignori…
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