2000-01 NL Verkade Report to Ministry of Economics: Software Patentability not Desirable

Report commissioned by Dutch Ministry of Ecnomic Affairs ("Economische Zaken"), presented in January 2000.

The author Verkade was professor of intellectual property law in general, not specially patent law.

The book's main thrust is that extension of patentability to software is very dangerous and the power copyright in the software business should not be underestimated.

Title: Ruimere octrooiering van computerprogramma's : technicality of revolutie? Title-en: patenting of computer programs: technicality or revolution? Author: Dirk Willem Frederik Verkade (1944-); Dirk Johan Gerard Visser (1969-); L.D. Bruining Year: cop. 2000
Edition: uitg. Printed in Den Haag : Sdu Uitgevers Series: ITeR-reeks, ISSN 1384-6590 ; 37 Remark: Oorspr. uitg.: Leiden : ITeR [etc.] : Ministerie van Economische Zaken, 1999 Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Engels size: 117 p dimensions: 25 cm ISBN: 90-5409-267-X

An early version of this report is still available at the web archive : http://web.archive.org/web/20030830133406/http://www.nwo.nl/iter/ovc.pdf and http://web.archive.org/web/20030317013535/http://www.nwo.nl/iter/ovc.pdf

An OCR-ed version as well as the pdf from web.archive.org are available at: http://www.vrijschrift.nl/nl/softwarepatenten/publ_overheid/