(fwd) EU software patents: please express gratitude to Poland

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

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--arky 

--- Raj Mathur <raju at linux-delhi.org> wrote:

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> Subject: [LIG] (fwd) EU software patents: please
> express gratitude to Poland
> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:21:08 +0530
> 
> [Time we too had a look at India's software patent
> strategy too.  Does
> anyone have detailed information on the new patent
> bill that is to be
> tabled in Parliament?  What's it's take on software
> patents? -- Raju]
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> Subject: EU software patents: please express
> gratitude to Poland
> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:02:24 +0100
> 
> Please take a minute to visit
> http://thankpoland.info and express your
> gratitude to the Polish government for its
> courageous last-minute
> intervention in the Council of the European Union
> against software patents
> on Tuesday (21 Dec).
> 
> Poland prevented, at least for the time being, the
> adoption of a legislative
> proposal that would legalize software patents in the
> EU.  The respective
> text looks like it forbids software patents while it
> actually codifies
> almost all of the excuses with which the European
> patent systems (European
> Patent Office and national patent offices) have been
> granting software
> patents for a number of years, contrary to the
> European Patent Convention.
> The EU Council could not have turned that proposal
> into an effective law
> right away.  The Council's "Common Position" would
> have to go back to the
> European Parliament for a second reading, in which
> the majority requirements
> to make any amendment are however very high.
> 
> What the Polish government did was very unusual in
> EU politics.  The EU
> Council has a two-tiered approach to
> decision-making, and in the entire
> history of the EU there has been no more than one
> case so far in which a
> political agreement (which was reached on software
> patents on 18 May 2004)
> was not turned into a formal decision later.  So
> Poland accepted to pay a
> diplomatic price for potentially preserving the
> freedom of software
> developers.  No other country was prepared to do so.
> 
> Please also participate in the "Thank you, Poland"
> campaign if you are not
> an EU citizen.  The EU's legislative process on
> software patents will have a
> major impact on what will happen with patent
> legislations worldwide.  If all
> of the first world is under a US-style software
> patent regime, emerging
> markets will follow.  This is the chance to rein in
> the patent system by
> democratic means, which would also increase the
> chances of a future patent
> reform in the US.
> 
> Florian
> 
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> 
> Florian Mueller
> Campaign Manager, www.NoSoftwarePatents.com
> florian.mueller at nosoftwarepatents.com
> phone +49-8151-651850
> 
> (thankpoland.info is independent from
> NoSoftwarePatents.com)
> 
> 
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