Comments on: Software Patents - back like a bad smell

By: The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » Software Patents - the stench lingers

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:39:24 +0000

[...] The European Patent Litigation Agreement (blogged by us as Software Patents - back like a bad smell) remains on course to pass the European Parliament (EP) with a comfortable majority. Although the proposed legislation will not by itself bring SWP into our legal system, as it stands the legislation gives powers to the European Patent Court (EPC) which will lead to the enforcement of SWP in Britain and across the EU. Our best means to oppose this development is to write letters to our MEPs, informing them of the many reasons why we continue to reject SWPs, and asking them to support a number of amendments to the EPLA. [...]

By: rufus

rufus — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:46:57 +0000

As Glyn says the link is http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/uk-parl. I note that that url appears to have been down for a day or so earlier this week but are now back up.

By: Jeremy Henty

Jeremy Henty — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:51:10 +0000

Glyn, thanks but that mailing list link you gave just hangs. I’m hunting around the ffii.org site but I can’t find anything that mentions mailing lists.

By: Glyn

Glyn — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:00:34 +0000

We recommend sending a letter to your local MEPs. For more detailed information on software patents and how to help the fight against them the ffii are the best people to talk to. The easiest thing to do is to join the ffii uk mailing list and send a quick email asking how can you help.

Sorry about not replying earlier to Jeremy’s post, I replied to his email address and forgot to add a copy of my reply here.

By: Higgy

Higgy — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:24:34 +0000

Could we have a ‘how you can help’ somewhere in these posts as well as the other informational points?

How can we help?

By: Jeremy Henty

Jeremy Henty — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:38:08 +0000

Anything useful Joe Q. Developer can do? Lobby our MEPs?