Actors involved in the Software Patent Directive

European organisaties

• EICTA

  • Agoria (BE)
  • Bitkom (DE)
  • Confindustria (IT)
  • SEGES (FR)
• Campaign for Creativity
• BSA
• UNICE
• CompTIA

US players in Europe

• ACT association for competitive technology

• DCI/TechCentralStation

EU

European Commission DG Internal Market

Parliament

EPP-ED (Split)

Committees

Comite juri (1st pro mccarthy 2nd Lehne)

MEPs

• Arlene McCarthy (socialist)

• Sharon Bowles (Lib Democrat)
• Malcolm Harbour (EPP-ED)
• Lehne (EPP-ED)
• Kauppi

Others

• European Patent Office/Organisation
• Council's patent policy working party/Working Party on Intellectual Property1
• European Patent Establishment:
• the patent office administrators of the member states, sitting on the EPO's Administrative Council
• the patent lawyers of large corporations, sitting on the "Standing Advisory Committee of the European Patent Office" SACEPO
• the patent administrators of the European Commission in the Industrial Property Unit at the Directorate General for the Internal Market, at the time under commissioner Mario Monti.

Companies

• Intel
• Microsoft
• Hewlett-Packard
• Novell
• Siemens
• Nokia
• Philips
• IBM
• Ericsson
• Alcatel

National

• National Patent Offices

European Organisations

• FFII
• Nosoftwarepatents.com
• Eurolinux Alliance
• CEA-PME
• Free Software Foundation
• UAP-PME
• Internet Society (ISOC)

• CCIA – computer & communications industry association

National Organisations

• PRO (pl)
• PIIT (pl)
• ASSOFT (pgl)
• ISZV (hun)
• SEPE (gr)
• KODA (svn)

EP Parties

• EPP-ED
• PSE
• ALDE
• Greens
• Independemt
• Non affiliated
• etc...

National parties

• Belgium
• Netherlands

EP Committees

• CULT
• ITRE

MEPs

• Rocard (rap 2nd reading)
• Kauppi (EPP shadow)
• Lichtenberger (shadow greens)
• Buzek
• Duff
• Maria Berger (PSE)

Companies

• SUN
• MySQL
• Red Hat

• 1&1