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Against Patenting Lifeforms
A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies
http://www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1995_11/m...
Protecting Information Innovation against the Abuse of the Patent System
A documentation of software patents focusing on Europe, patent data, article reviews, and news.
http://swpat.ffii.org/
Software Patents Mailing List
Mailing list discussions about the economic consequences of patents in the software industry.
http://www.aful.org/wws/info/patents
GNU Project: Boycott Amazon!
Richard Stallman of the GNU Project calls for a boycott of Amazon for enforcing its patent on the obvious concept of one-click purchasing.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html
The Non-Patent Side of Software Patents
Slideshow presentation exploring the implications of and criticizing software patents.
http://gibuskro.lautre.net/patents/
Internet Patent News
Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
http://www.bustpatents.com/
Mitch Kapor's Congressional Testimony
Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus. This is his testimony to Congress OPPOSING software patents, saying they are harmful.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/kapor...
Catalan Linux Users - Analysis of the Directive for Software Patents
Analysis of the report to the European Parliament on the directive for software patents.
http://patents.caliu.info/dgiv.html
AMNews: Unlocking innovation - Patents on procedures hurt patients
The American Medical Association opposes patents on medical procedures. Here is one of their articles on the issue.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/1998/amn_...
European Anti-Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive
Promotes the idea of bribes to fight software patents.
http://mjr.iki.fi/texts/patentfund
Top Reasons Why No Epatents
Illustrates the main reasons why EU should deny software patentability. Counter-arguments, reports and other informative texts.
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/TopReasonsWhy...
Oracle Corporation - Patent Policy
This is a press release by Oracle, the database giant, AGAINST the copyrighting of software.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/state...
Adobe Testimony
Transcript of the testimony by Douglas Brotz, an Adobe Principal Scientist, wherein Adobe officially establishes its opposition to software patents.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/state...
A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on Life
Farmers and indigenous peoples are outraged that plants that they developed are being 'hijacked' by companies. Groups as diverse as religious leaders, parliamentarians and environment NGOs are intensifying their campaign against corporate patenting of living things.
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pat-ch.htm
Slashdot - Patents
Featuring patent news, links and discussion.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=155
Negative Correlation of Innovation and Software Patents
This is part of the League for Programming Freedom's submission to the Patent Office, January 25, 1994. It shows evidence that patents hurt even the companies which get them.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/score...
FFII - European Software Patent Horror Gallery
Tabular listings and statistics of monopolies on programming problems, granted by the European Patent Office against the letter and spirit of the existing laws.
http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta
Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
A short petition text which was signed by more than 50000 people in Europe during the first few months of its existence and which rallied support statements from 200 IT companies and 1000 programmers
http://petition.eurolinux.org
NoSoftwarePatents.com
Campaign website against software patents in the EU. (Different languages)
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com
Vienna University - Intellectual Property Rights for the Rich and the Poor?
Summarizes and discusses the impact of the introduction of IPRs protection on developing and least developed countries in accordance with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement.
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h99a/h9950236...
Autodesk Statement
Autodesk, the makers of a very popular animation program, have issued this statement against software patents.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/state...
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