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Eurolinux Petition FFII EuroLinux any browser MLHT

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After having bent the law so as to be able to grant patents on information and life, the European Patent Office and the EU commission want to change the law itself so as to legalise their practise. They have never seriously investigated how this may affect the development of information technology.

 

UNPO UNDP, United Nations Development Program, «Human Development Report» 1999, Oxford University Press, 1999. (http://www.undp.org/hdro/index2.html):
"The relentless march of intellectual property rights must be stopped and questioned"
IBM Patent Server (http://www.patents.ibm.com/ibm.html):
Hier sind alle US-Patente der letzten >20 Jahre zu finden. Ein nützlicher Dienst, der nebenbei IBM immer mit Informationen darüber versorgt, wer derzeit was sucht.
The Software Patent Institute (http://www.spi.org):
Umfassende Datenbank, gefördert von IBM, MS u.a., gemeinnützig, intended to solve the problems of priority research. As the years pass by, such a solution seems more distant than ever.
University of Michigan Media Union Library: Software Patents (http://www.ummu.umich.edu/library/PTO/Software.html):
Überblick über diverse Ressourcen zum Für und Wider von Softwarepatenten
Weltorganisation für das Geistige Eigentum (http://www.wipo.org):
drängt auf weltweit einheitliche Durchsetzung von Verwertungsvorrechten.


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2000-07-26 PILCH Hartmut