Timeline

• continuing migration of documents to new collaborative multilingual hypertext format
• preparing contributions to Knowright

Chronology

• 22
  • Simplified Notation for Text Chunk Hierarchies – with this improvement, of which a preliminary implementation is now available and running on a test installation, collaborative multilingual work on the Eupat site will be much more effective
• 20
  • Europaparlament pausiert wegen Eyjafjallajökull
• 12
  • attributions in Short Introduction page fixed.
  • FFII signs Wellington Declaration on ACTA
• 11
  • migrated Short Introduction page and added reference to new intro speech by the original author – attributions on the migrated page have yet to be fixed
  • updated and mulitlingualised the Workgroup page.
• 08
  • FFII: ACTA will undermine European Parliament’s power in IP matters: “The FFII fears that ACTA will treat software developers who are accidentally infringing patents with punitive measures designed for hard-core counterfeiters.”
• 07
  • Unpaid Patent Examiners: a Success Story
• 05
  • migrated 8 subdocuments of Analysis directory.
• 04
  • multilingualised top document
  • migrated 3 subdocuments of Patents and 3 of Players
  • migration library is working reliably; only a bit of manual finish-up is necessary for each document
• 03
  • migrated European Software Patent Horror Gallery and Software Patent Archive
  • migration library is working
• 01
  • migrated News
  • started to develop migration script
• last month

Terminology

migrate

make the document referencable and editable within the current CMS, multilingualise the header part, integrate the body part in raw form using CASE statements of the Template language and the Native environment of Deplate.

multilingualise

reduce the document to a minimum, make the vocabulary files the only sources.

Resources

• Europatentbox – free european patent data frontend by a virtual “European Patent Foundation”
• Collective Shields against Software Patents? – need to update with newer experiences such as
  • P2Pat
  • Open Invention Network – a patent protection scheme, projects get protection for free and sign up under the umbrella, companies pay
  • Patent Commons
• Patent Absurdity – 30 minute documentary film on history of US software patenting with focus on Supreme Court hearing in re Bilski
• FFII PR: EU patent system taken away from European Court of Justice
  • Six reasons to oppose the United Patent Litigation System UPLS
• VP8 – Google erhört uns