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Mitch Kapor's Congressional Testimony
Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus. This is his testimony to Congress OPPOSING software patents, saying they are harmful.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/kapor.html
Patents for Surgical/Medical Procedures: A Call for Legislative Prohibition
An executive summary of the position of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Opthalmic Administrators against patents for surgical and medical procedures.
http://www.ascrs.org/advocacy/execsum.html
Why Open Source is Winning
An article which says open source is successful because it places software development in the hands of the individuals, not some megacorp with intellectual monopoly grants (patents).
http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/TomNadeau/TomNadeau3.html
Against Patenting Lifeforms
A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies
http://www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1995_11/msg00067.html
GreenPeace Opposition to European Life Patents
Press release highlighting opposition to specific patents and refutation of patent claims.
http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/97/geneng/press/july14.html
Negative Correlation of Innovation and Software Patents
This is part of the League for Programming Freedom's submission to the Patent Office, January 25, 1994. It shows evidence that patents hurt even the companies which get them.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/scoreboard.html
Oracle Corporation - Patent Policy
This is a press release by Oracle, the database giant, AGAINST the copyrighting of software.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/oracle.html
Preparing for the Intellectual-Property Offensive
In the interest of ensuring that free software developers having access to patented technology, Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens suggests a number of tactics and strategies to consider.
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-11/lw-11-thesource.html
Autodesk Statement
Autodesk, the makers of a very popular animation program, have issued this statement against software patents.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/autodesk.html
Adobe Testimony
Transcript of the testimony by Douglas Brotz, an Adobe Principal Scientist, wherein Adobe officially establishes its opposition to software patents.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/adobe.testimony.html
A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on Life
Farmers and indigenous peoples are outraged that plants that they developed are being 'hijacked' by companies. Groups as diverse as religious leaders, parliamentarians and environment NGOs are intensifying their campaign against corporate patenting of living things.
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pat-ch.htm
Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
The biggest software organization in the world calls for a boycott of Amazon for its predatory, monopolistic attempts to control basic web ideas.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html
Internet Patent News
Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
http://www.bustpatents.com/
PanIP Defendants
Legal defense group opposing efforts by Pangea Intellectual Properties (PanIP) to sue e-commerce sites.
http://www.youmaybenext.com/
Software Patents Mailing List
Mailing list discussions about the economic consequences of patents in the software industry.
http://liberte.aful.org/mailman/listinfo/patents
Protecting Information Innovation against the Abuse of the Patent System
A documentation of software patents focusing on Europe, patent data, article reviews, and news.
http://swpat.ffii.org/
FFII - European Software Patent Horror Gallery
Tabular listings and statistics of monopolies on programming problems, granted by the European Patent Office against the letter and spirit of the existing laws.
http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta
Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
A short petition text which was signed by more than 50000 people in Europe during the first few months of its existence and which rallied support statements from 200 IT companies and 1000 programmers
http://petition.eurolinux.org
Slashdot - Patents
Featuring patent news, links and discussion.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=155
Catalan Linux Users - Analysis of the Directive for Software Patents
Analysis of the report to the European Parliament on the directive for software patents.
http://patents.caliu.info/dgiv.html
Scientific American - A License for Copycats?
Article by Gary Stix discussing a court decision that might clarify what is patentable.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000945BB-E3EC-1C6F-84A9809EC588EF21
The Non-Patent Side of Software Patents
Slideshow presentation exploring the implications of and criticizing software patents.
http://gibuskro.lautre.net/patents/
Vienna University - Intellectual Property Rights for the Rich and the Poor?
Summarizes and discusses the impact of the introduction of IPRs protection on developing and least developed countries in accordance with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement.
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h99a/h9950236/iprs/index.htm
AMNews: Unlocking innovation - Patents on procedures hurt patients
The American Medical Association opposes patents on medical procedures. Here is one of their articles on the issue.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/1998/amn_98/edit0209.htm
Top Reasons Why No Epatents
Illustrates the main reasons why EU should deny software patentability. Counter-arguments, reports and other informative texts.
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/TopReasonsWhyNoEpatents
Protecting Innovation Against Patent Inflation
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) features legal information, news and selected online resources against software patentability.
http://www.ffii.org.uk/swpat.html
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