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2005-03-19 EU Groklaw: Reports from the UK Patent Office's Technical Contribution Workshops (-> UKPO Workshop)
2005-03-19 EU NSP Forum: Report from UKPO Technical Contribution Workshop in Bolton (-> UKPO Workshop)
2005-03-09 EU European Commission 80% happy with program claims
2005-03-19 EU Interview with Hurd developer Marcus Brinkmann: "software patents are absurd"
2005-03-19 EU FFII: Erik Meijer MEP asks FFII's procedural questions to the Council
2005-03-19 EU Wired: Euro Software Patents Pending
2005-03-18 EU Lenz Blog: Big Spender Alliance
2005-03-19 IN Financial Express: Centre yields, agrees to amend Patents Bill
2005-03-18 US E-Commerce Times: Hatch To Lead Senate Panel on Intellectual Property
2005-03-19 IN Business Standard: Patents Bill: Govt takes Left on board
2005-03-18 IN The Telegraph: Patents get Left blessing
2005-03-18 IN HindustanTimes: Noisy scenes over patent bill, Goa budget
2005-03-18 IN The Tribune: Amid opposition, patents Bill introduced in LS
2005-03-18 IN Financial Express India: We wont allow passage of Patent Bill: BJP
2005-03-18 IE KDE DOT: KDE.IE on Software patents
2005-03-18 WW NewsForge: Leaders see symbiotic growth for open source and biotech
2005-03-18 IN ExpressNewsLine: India's patent bill tabled in parliament
2005-03-18 IN The Economic Times: Govt introduces Patents Bill in LS
2005-03-17 US InternetNews: Ebay Hit on Patent Infringement
2005-03-18 EU Slashdot: Microsoft Fails to Comply With EU Requirements
2005-03-18 EU ZDnet UK: Microsoft's Licence to Kill
2005-03-17 UK Report on the UKPO "Technical Contribution" workshop in Bolton (-> UKPO Workshops)
2005-03-17 EU Groklaw: Slip, Sliding Away on Software Patents
2005-03-17 EU Mplayer (a movie player for many operating systems) closes its webpage for patent infringement
2005-03-17 EU eWeek: Irish Open-Source Groups Protest Software Patents
2005-03-18 IN The Economic Times: Patents Bill to be sent to select panel of parliament
2005-03-17 EU ZDNet UK: Irish developers protest against patents
2005-03-07 EU NSP: Council sends a mockery of a CP to the EP
2005-03-10 IE KDE.ie: Fine Gael MEP Coveney "battle between the Commission and the Parliament"
2005-03-16 IE KDE.ie: Sinn Fein MEP McDonald "abhors the arrogance" of the Commissioners, 18 March hearing of GUE/NGL
2005-03-16 IE KDE Ireland: Software Patentability
2005-03-16 US The Street.com: eBay Must Relitigate Patent Injunction
2005-03-16 CA IT Business: RIM settlement lifts cloud over BlackBerry's future
2005-03-17 UK The Register: RIM settles NTP lawsuit for $450m
2005-03-16 UK Script-Ed: Prior Art Searching for Software Patents
2005-03-16 IE Groklaw: Irish Linux Groups Write Their MEPs About SW Patents
2005-03-16 US Reuters/ZDnet: RIM settles NTP patent suit (pays up $450m)
2005-03-01 FR France-science.org: EU fight over software patenting
2005-03-16 IN Hindustan Times: BJP for referring Patent ordinance to Parliamentary Panel
2005-03-10 NL WebWereld: Brinkhorst survives patent debate
2005-03-10 DK WebWereld: Danish minister survives debate patents
2005-03-16 DE Heise: Ministry of Economics and Labour: concerns about software patents are unfounded
2005-03-16 IN Sify: Govt to introduce Patent Bill next week
2005-03-15 UK Scottish Parliament launching a motion against software patents (see: S2M-2568)
2005-03-15 US Groklaw: Microsoft's US XML Patent Application
2005-03-15 UK Report on the UKPO "Technical Contribution" workshop in Coventry (-> UKPO Workshops)
2005-03-14 US Microsoft settles Burst.com lawsuit
2005-03-11 US Pacific Business News: Titan Key Software gets patent on spam blacklisting
2005-03-11 US ZDNet: RIM rivals ink licensing agreement
2005-03-15 EU TechNewsWorld: Lowering the Volume in the Software Patent Debate (-> LinuxInsider info)
2005-03-15 IN The Financial Express: Embedded software patenting unlikely
2005-03-15 EU LXer: Software patents in the banana-union (EU): short summary
2005-03-15 US NewScientist: Online purchase could give you away
2005-03-15 EU The Inquirer: European Union is a banana republic ( -> google )
2005-03-10 EU FFII: Report on the 5th Conference on European Policy for Intellectual Property
2005-03-15 EU Groklaw: More on EU Software Patents, Prior Art, and Another NZ MS XML Patent
2005-03-15 EU FFII: FFII sends 23 procedural questions to the Council Legal Services (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-15 NZ Slashdot: MS Files for Broad XML/Word-processing Patent in NZ (-> Nz)
2005-03-13 EU MIP Week: Software patent survival in Parliaments hands
2005-03-15 EU FinFacts: Microsoft and Time Warner abandon acquisition (-> ContentGuard)
2005-01-23 UK BBC: Software patents 'threaten Linux'
2005-03-15 EU ComputerWeekly: Software patents row heads for stalemate
2005-03-09 EU eWeek: EU Commissioner Reding: Patent Verdict Is in Good Hands
2005-03-14 WW Slashdot: Understanding (and Avoiding) Software Patents?
2005-03-14 EU Groklaw: Discussion of Sharon Bowles letter
2005-03-10 US Microsoft: Yankee Group Report on Indemnification (Win vs. Open Source)
2005-03-12 EU/DE CeBIT: Microsoft and BSA call for a reform of the patent system (remark: at !CeBIT, FFII is in Hall 6, Booth 532)
2005-03-15 NZ The New Zealand Herald: Gates up to old tricks over intellectual property rights
2005-03-14 EU ITWeek: EU patent directive takes step forward (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-10 US MS-Watch: Microsoft Advocates for Patent Reform
2005-03-14 EU FT: Ericsson boss - "major, major problem for the technology industry"
2005-03-12 EU Muriel Blog: Buy a Law from the Luxemburg Presidency! (satirical advertisement)
2005-03-12 IN The Hindu: The draft patent law (-> swpat in India)
2005-03-07 EU Scottish National MEP: Council position "needs radical overhaul"
2005-03-10 EU Legal-economic study: Commission text lacks legal certainty and economic rationale
2005-03-11 US The Register: Microsoft pot calls Patent Office black
2005-03-12 US gameshout.com: Yahoo Countersued by Xfire
2005-03-12 US Register-Guard: Microsoft to pay $60 million in settlement with company
2005-03-13 US MS PR@I-newswire: MS and Burst.com settlement
2005-03-13 UK John Naughton/The Guardian: It's patently absurd to let the bureaucrats take over
2005-03-11 US MS-Watch: Pundits Weigh In on Microsoft's Proposed Patent Reforms
2005-03-12 EU Commissioner McCreevy reinterprets the European Parliament's motives
2005-03-12 IE Finfacts: Microsoft pays $60 million in patent-infringement claim
2005-03-12 US Toronto Star: RIM rivals strike patent alliance
2005-03-11 WW ZDNet blog: Microsoft wants patent system fixed (but not eliminated)
2005-03-10 NL Report: Dutch Tweede Kamer debate from 10 March 2005 (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU FSF-Europe: European Cities will suffer from software patents
2005-03-11 EU Linux Insider: IT Industry Fears EU Patent Law Will Stifle Small Firms
2005-03-10 EU FFII: Letter to the Council Presidency: What happened on Monday? (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-10 WW eWeek: Patents Cast Shadow on Future Development
2005-03-08 US Slashdot: Microsoft Calls For Patent Law Change
2005-03-08 US LWN: FFII: The patent directive and the European constitution
2005-03-10 US InformationWeek: Microsoft Pushes Patent Reform
2005-03-11 IN Foreign nations lobbying for patents law
2005-03-11 EU OpenDemocracy: Patents for profit: dystopian visions of the new economy
2005-03-11 EU McCreevy: Commission will take "utmost account" of Parliament amendments
2005-03-10 EU The Register: Apple faces patent lawsuits over its iPod (-> Apple0503En)
2005-03-07 EU EP (Press Agency): Spanish Minister - the software patent will have difficulties to come out
2005-03-03 EU EU IDABC: European ICT market expanding faster than US and Japanese markets (even with all the "legal uncertainty" about the enforceability of software patents)
2005-03-10 UK Kuro5hin: What if patents applied to literature?
2005-03-10 US InformationWeek: Microsoft pushes Patent Reform
2005-03-10 US eWeek: Microsoft Advocates for Patent Reform
2005-03-10 US Forbes: Microsoft to the rescue?
2005-03-10 US Internetnews.com: Mr Smith went to Washington for Patent reform
2005-03-10 US IDG/InfoWorld: Microsoft calls for patent reform
2005-03-11 IN The Economic Times: Patents - UPA yields an inch, Left wants a mile
2005-03-10 EU Financial Times UK: Barroso's accord with parliament remains brittle
2005-03-11 NZ Submissions Deadline in New Zealand tomorrow
2005-03-10 EU Cnet Asia: In Europe, patent olive branch--or threat?
2005-03-10 US IPO: 'Patent "Trolls" and Patent Property Rights' conference on 14th March 2004
2005-03-10 PT O Público: Manuel Castells says "Patenting software equals destroying software"
2005-03-10 UK Guardian: Second sight
2005-03-07 DK Danish Konservative Party: "A Good Day For Software Developers"
2005-03-10 EU PCPro UK: EC to allow computer patent law destruction
2005-03-10 EU BBC: Last chance for EU software law
2005-03-10 EU European Patent Office organises "information day" in the European Parliament
2005-03-10 DK Politiken: Social Democrats saving Bendtsen
2005-03-10 NL Brinkhorst: Danish decision about software patents made in backroom
2005-03-07 EU NuFW software releases NuFW 1.0.0 codename "European Parliament, Save me!"
2005-03-07 EU Heise: The EU Council passes controversial directive on software patents without a renewed debate (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU Commission welcomes "adoption" and "will now engage constructively ... to reach a compromise in the interest of a balanced result" (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-09 EU McCreevy again: Parliament do your job
2005-03-09 DE Commissioner Reding Cebit05: We also need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the ... innovation system
2005-03-09 DK Anders Samuelsen MEP: Bendt Bendtsen shows contempt for Danish Parliament
2005-03-09 US Patent misinformation? Depends on where you stand
2005-03-09 DK Bendtsen furious over Dutch accusation
2005-03-09 EU itWorldCanada/IDG: E.U. ministers sign off on proposed patent law (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-09 US ZDNet UK: Amazon patents gender stereotyping
2005-03-07 EU BSA letter to the EU Commission on the software patents directive (written 2005-02-21, but published later, from Francisco Mingorance to Comissioner McCreevy)
2005-03-09 US Groklaw: EuroParl Press Release - The Ball is in Our Court Now
2005-03-08 DK Parliament questions Bendtsen: Did Denmark reject its own request?
2005-03-09 EU Gnome.org project closes its homepage to thank the Council of Ministers
2005-03-09 EU Council: Unilateral declarations from Cyprus and Denmark
2005-03-09 EU ZDNet UK: EC - We'd accept software patent defeat
2005-03-09 EU ZDNet UK: European Parliament cries foul over patent directive
2005-03-09 BE Verwilghen: "This B-item request doesn't exist"
2005-03-09 EU Lenz Blog: Aussi Les Autres (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 EU Charlie McCreevy's Statement to the European Parliament on "Computer Implemented Inventions"
2005-03-09 EU O'Reilly.net: Software Patents in the EU
2005-03-09 EU ZDNet UK Talkback: Despair greets software patent bill (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-09 EU Euractiv: Heated reactions to Council vote on software patents (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU EBCVG: EU software patent directive approved ("some IT vendors, including Sun Microsystems Inc., say the proposal would open the door to a U.S.-style patent regime") (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 EU Reuters: No new directive if Parliament rejects in 2nd reading says McCreevy
2005-03-07 EU UEAPME: Council decision a blow to new proposal on patents for computerimplemented inventions (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 EU McCreevy: The ball is now very clearly in the European Parliaments court
2005-03-08 EU EU Observer: EU ministers agree software patent law (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 EU Computer Business Review: EU Council adopts technology patent directive (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 US/DK Groklaw: Danish reactions collected (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 EU eWeek: Is There No Stopping European Software Patent Law? (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 UK FT: EU ministers approve new software patent draft law (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 UK FT: Smaller Companies 'in firing line' (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 UK FT: Leader - Patently a problem (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 UK Telegraph: Brussels accused of failing to halt software 'stitch-up' (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 IE ENN: EU Council approves software patents law (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 UK Out-law: Council approves Patents Directive (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 DK "A Good Day For Software Developers" press release from Mr. Bendtsen's party(screenshot) (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU Council Press Release about adoption (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU Council: High resolution pictures of Competitiveness Council (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-08 JP Lenz: Luxembourg Presidency Making Up Some New Rules (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU Open letter to the EU: Council, we have a problem
2005-03-07 EU FFII: JURI asks for Council decision documentation
2005-03-07 EU ZDNet Leader: Software patents make a mockery of European ideals (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU The Greens/EFA: "the Greens will work to assemble as large a lobby as possible" (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU VNUnet: EU Council approves software patent initiative (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 US AP/NYT: EU Governments OK Software Patent Bill (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU EICTA: welcomes Council agreement (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU Slashdot: EU Software patent directive adopted (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU Reuters/FT: EU ministers back disputed software patent proposal (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU ZDnet: Software patent directive adopted (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU FFII: Council audio recording
2005-03-07 EU AP/BusinessWeek: EU governments OK software patent bill (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU NSP: EU Council sends a mockery of a Common Position to the European Parliament for a Second Reading (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU BBC: EU ministers endorse patent law (-> Adoption Farce)
2005-03-07 EU FFII: Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules
2005-03-07 EU FFII provides a live audio stream of the Council debate
2005-03-07 EU/DK Berlingske: IT worlds eyes rest on Bendt (English translation of Danish article)
2005-03-07 EU Herald Tribune: EU ministers to address patents
2005-03-07 EU PC Pro: Software patents: the directive's cut
2005-03-06 DE FFII launches Thank Denmark Campaign to Support B-Item Move
2005-03-06 EU NSP: Why European Democracy will benefit from a renegotiation
2005-03-03 US BusinessWeek Online: SCO, A Linux Nemesis on the Rocks
2005-03-06 UK House of Commons updated on EU Software Patent Directive
2005-03-05 EU iTunes/iPod under threat from pending European Patent
2005-03-05 EU NRC Handelsblad editorial: Europe shouldn't unnecessarily juridically encumber software
2005-03-03 EU NSP: Denmark and Poland will deal the Death Blow to May 2004 Text
2005-03-04 EU Groklaw: Denmark - SW Patent Directive as B-Item Only on Monday
2005-03-04 WW ZDNet: DRM patent holder seeks 12 percent of iTunes/iPod gross from Apple (-> Apple0503En)
2005-03-04 EU TheRegister: Euro ministers set to OK patent measure
2005-03-04 EU LinuxToday: NoSoftwarePatents - Denmark and Poland Will Deal the Death Blow To the Council's Current Proposal
2005-03-04 EU LinuxToday: Reuters - EU Sees Approval of Contested Software Patent Bill
2005-03-04 EU PC Pro UK: Poland continues fight over EU patent directive
2005-03-04 EU Slashdot: EU Patents Won't Stay Dead
2005-03-04 EU E-Commerce Times: EU Ready To Approve Patent Law Monday
2005-03-04 EU TechWeb: Europe's Software Patents Pendulum May Swing
2005-03-04 EU ZDNet UK: Last-gasp attempt to block patent directive (-> Danish B-Item)
2005-03-04 EU Managing Intellectual Property: EU commissioner sets IP focus
2005-03-03 EU Europarl news: Computerised inventions - The Commission refuses to budge (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-04 EU eWeek: EU Patent Law Could Impede Open Source
2005-03-04 CZ MEP Roithova (Czech EPP) demands B-item from Czech government
2005-03-04 DK Computerworld online: Denmark blocks software patents (-> Danish B-Item)
2005-03-04 EU FFII: Danish Parliament obliges Minister to renegotiate software patents in Council
2005-03-04 EU CNET: EU set for vote on software patents (Presidency expects Vote on Monday)
2005-03-04 DK IT-pol.dk: Danish Parliament calls for B-item (-> Danish B-Item)
2005-03-04 EU NSP: Microsoft takes over EU market ministry (hoax/satire)
2005-03-04 EU Greens-Efa: McCreevy's 30 seconds were just not enough
2005-03-04 EU Lenz Blog: Qui Tacit
2005-03-04 PL Polish Informatisation minister: we cannot fight alone
2005-03-03 EU Belgian SME receives a reply to a letter from Noteboom (DG MARKT) (no precisions about "economic majority" ponderation)
2005-03-03 WW Groklaw: EU MEP Says Bill Gates Influenced No Restart Decision
2005-03-03 EU FFII: JURI schedules software patents discussion on Monday 7 March 2005
2005-03-03 NL Vrijschrift: Two motions in the Netherlands on software patents
2005-03-03 EU ITworld: Commission says 'no' to restart of patents directive (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-03 NL NL Parliament: "if other state asks for B-item, then make no objection"
2005-02-03 DE MEP Lehne (EPP) fears restriction of patentability, asks Commission to withdraw the directive
2005-03-03 DE City of Munich: Mayor Ude wants government to start renegotiations in Council (that is, B-item)
2005-03-03 BE PS.Be: Walloon Socialists support EP's restart request and ask Council to take into account the EP's concerns (French)
2005-03-03 EU BBC: 'No re-draft' for EU patent law (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-03 EU CBR: EC rejects European patent restart (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-03 EU FFII: McCreevy unconvincing at EP Presidents' Meeting
2005-03-03 EU FFII: McCreevy replacing Barroso in EP at 11.00
2005-03-03 EU NSP: Barroso acted in collusion with Microsoft, says high-profile MEP
2005-03-03 AT Berger: Barroso playing high-stakes poker with EP
2005-03-03 WW ZDNet AU: Gates gonged as OSS community fights patent war
2005-03-03 EU Legal Week: Intellectual Property: Not far enough
2005-03-02 US Programmers Heaven: Codepatents offers RSS feeds on new software patents granted in US
2005-03-02 EU FFII: Urgent Council Consultation on Software Patent A-Item
2005-03-02 EU FFII: Barroso declines invitation for talks with Parliament
2005-03-02 WW VNUNet: User group calls for open security standards
2005-03-02 US ZDNet: Appeals court overturns Eolas decision (-> Eolas)
2005-03-02 EU MEP Alvaro: Barroso affronts European Parliament
2005-03-02 EU Out-Law.com: Commission rejects Patent Directive restart (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-02 NL FFII: Patent FUD spread in Dutch Parliament using Philips documents
2005-03-02 US BusinessWire PR: Symantec Granted Patent for Key Information Security Technology (-> Patent granting stories)
2005-03-01 UK Tory MEPs back Council Software Patent Agreement
2005-03-02 EU Tech News World: European Commission refuses "CIID" rewrite (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-02 EU PC Pro UK: European Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-01 EU Heise: Software patents: EU Commission officially rejects a restart to the proceedings (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-01 EU FFII publishes Barroso (Commission) letter to Borell (EP) (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-01 EU ITWorld: Hopes of fresh start on E.U. software patent law set back (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-01 DE NoSoftwarePatents.com Dr Krings (German conservatives) on Commission refusal (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-01 EU The Register: EC rebuffs Parliament's patent restart request (-> Commission refusal)
2005-03-01 EU ZDNet AU: EU software patent law may halt Linux development: Aussie lawyer
2005-03-01 EU The Age: EU software patent issue comes to a head again (-> Commission refusal)
