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Eurolinux Petition FFII EuroLinux any browser MLHT

[DE Deutsch] [translatable text] [howto translate]

 

What can we do?

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.

 

The governments of the European countries are called for to take up their responsibility for legislation on such grave public issues as the scope of patentability. The EPC is a treaty among European states (including non-EU states). Only the governments of these states have the right to act, when the patent offices violate the letter or the spirit of these treaties.

This may the German Ministery of Economics convened a conference for which we prepared a "statement" and a documentation CD.

Only little time is left to give this public discussion a further boost. We are preparing a letter action to reach all decisionmakers.


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