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#European alliance defending your right to free and competitive software creation since 1999 #Free #SoftwareMarkets #OpenStandards Educating about #PatentSystem

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@FFII
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
5 years
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
ffii.org
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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@sfermigier
Stefane Fermigier
5 years
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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@FFII
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
5 years
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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@AlanJohnson1959
Alan Johnson
6 years
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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@FFII
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
6 years
Unitary Patent: Germany is ignoring Brexit, European law, its Constitutional Court and Italians https://t.co/xoTpdn6EmE #brexit #upc #patent #milan #paris #trolls #swpat
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@FFII
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
6 years
"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"
legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com
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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@zoobab
zoobab "NO Software Patents"
6 years
Milan will loose the UPC seat to Paris, says Tilmann in his latest paper in GRUR: "the Central Chamber of Paris has to take over the tasks of the London branch until further notice without any regulation being necessary." #upc #italy #brexit
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@FFII
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
6 years
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
ffii.org
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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@zoobab
zoobab "NO Software Patents"
6 years
"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."
legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com
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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@zoobab
zoobab "NO Software Patents"
6 years
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."
legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com
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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@zoobab
zoobab "NO Software Patents"
6 years
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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