Software Patents in Europe

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Documents

These documents explain how software patents will influence very different areas of society and economy.

• How the European patent system works (2012-09-05)
  A blogpost by the President of FSFE Karsten Gerloff

• Submission to European Patent Office (EPO) on Software Patents (2009-04-29)
  

• Karlsruhe Memorandum against software patentability in Europe (2005-06-25)
  

• Software patents - a danger to democracy (2005-06-06)
  Open Letter to Mr. Mr Borrell Fontelles, President of the European Parliament by Georg Greve

• European Commission is going to undermine some of its best work (2005-05-02)
  Open Letter to Mr. Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services by Georg Greve

• Software patents putting International Financial Report Standards (IFRS) in danger (2005-04-05)
  Open Letter to Mr. Rudy Provoost, President of the European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA) by Georg Greve

• European Cities will suffer from software patents (2005-03-07)
  Open Letter to Mrs. Catherine Parmentier, Chief Executive Officer of EUROCITIES by Georg Greve

• Software patents harm banks (2005-02-07)
  Open Letter to Mr. Nout Wellink, President of the International Bank of Settlements by Georg Greve

• Software patents are bad for your health (2005-01-03)
  Open letter to Mr. Lee, General Secretary of the World Health Organisation (WHO) by Georg Greve

• Software patents detrimental to European power supply business (2004-12-06)
  Open letter to Mr. Haider, President of the Union of the Electricity Industry - EURELECTRIC by Georg Greve

• Software patents are like firefighting with petrol (2004-11-01)
  Open letter to Mr. Barroso by Georg Greve

• Allianz Group will suffer because of software patents (2004-10-04)
  Open letter to Mr. Diekmann, CEO of Allianz Group by Georg Greve

• No software patents, conserve competitive advantage! (2004-09-06)
  Open letter to the Dutch Prime Minister Dr. Balkenende by Georg Greve

• Software patents will destroy the foundations of IBM's future (2004-08-02)
  Open letter to Dr. Wladawsky-Berger of IBM by Stefano Maffulli and Georg Greve

• Open Letter to the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG) on software patents (2004-07-06)
  Open letter to Prof. Bullinger by Georg Greve

• Open letter to Prof. Köhler on software patents (2004-05-31)
  Open letter to Prof. Köhler, designated German President by Georg Greve

• Open letter to all citizens of Europe (2004-05-10)
  Open letter on software patents by Georg Greve and Hartmut Pilch

Links

These organisations and pages contain more information about software patents.

• https://swpat.ffii.org: Here you can find detailed information on various issues related to software patents on the web page of our associate organisation, the FFII.
• https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/savingeurope.html
• https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html
• https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html
• https://www.linux.it/GNU/nemici/brevetti.en.shtml
• https://www.stop-swpat.de