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Poles postpone software patents
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Polish undersecretary of science and e-Government, Wlodzimierz
Marcinski, appears to have bought us some more time. Marcinski made a
special trip to speak at the EU Council, asking that the software patent
directive be removed from the agenda - it was listed as an A-item (to be
voted on without discussion).
Marcinski is deputy to the well-respected minister Micha\u0142 Kleiber, who
has an approval rating three times greater than other ministers with the
Polish public, and who is not affiliated with any Polish political party
or group.
Marcinski asked for the delay to allow the Polish to make a
"constructive declaration": this probably means that while the
Computer-Implemented Invention (CII) directive is likely to go back on
the agenda at some point in the future in the same form it is now.
However, the political pressure applied to get to this point has worked
- it's possible that the Council will reconsider their position in the
light of the trouble this directive is causing. Otherwise, we could see
it again as early as February.
"Buy Fair Technology" campaign launched by FFII
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FFII has started a "Buy Fair Technology" project to provide consumers
with information about the companies who are financing and actively
lobbying for extensions of patentability in the EU. So far FFII has
called for people to avoid buying from the "Big European Patent
Bullies": Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel & Philips, and to seek out
alternatives.
<http://kwiki.ffii.org/FairTechEn>
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Neil Williams
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