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# Time-stamp: <2010-04-07 19:36:17 phm>

# lfol = papiere
des = IBM's patent department is actively lobbying Europe to legalise software patents.  They have invested millions in fighting example cases to leading European lawcourts such as the EPO's Technical Boards of Appeal and the German Federal Court in order to soften and eventually remove European restrictions on patenting software.
kws = Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Software Patents, intellectual property, industrial property, IP, I2P, immaterial assets, law of immaterial goods, mathematical method, business methods, Rules of Organisation and Calculation, invention, non-inventions, computer-implemented inventions, computer-implementable inventions, software-related inventions, software-implemented inventions, software patent, computer patents, information patents, technical invention, technical character, technicity, technology, software engineering, industrial character, Patentierbarkeit, substantive patent law, Nutzungsrecht, patent inflation, quelloffen, standardisation, innovation, competition, European Patent Office, General Directorate for the Internal Market, patent movement, patent family, patent establishment, patent law, patent lawyers, lobby
tit = IBM and Software Patents
sut = Peace-Loving Promoter of the Arms Race

intro1 =
intro1a = IBM has threatened European politicians that IBM might close down local facilities if software patents are not legalised in Europe.
intro1b = IBM has also prevented the US government from conducting studies on the value of software patents for the national economy. 
intro2 = In the wake of the Opensource hype, IBM has touted "Peace, Love, Linux" and thereby given an impression of détente with respect to its nuclear arsenal of mutually assured destruction.
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intro3 =
intro3a = IBM has acquired several 1000 European software patents whose legal value is unclear.
intro3b = Given the great number of software patents in IBM's hands, IBM is one of the few software companies who may have a genuine interest in software patentability.
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intro3c = Once software patents become assertable in Europe, an IBM tax of several billion EUR per year may be levied on European software companies.
Hercules = In 2010 IBM $(th:attacked) a European opensource startup with 106 patents.
chapman_dit = Richard Chapman $(rc:says):
chapman_txt = Having IBM at your side in the land of Open Source is sort of like having a large carnivore as a pet. They may play and cuddle with you but you never know if or when they will revert to their natural ways and have you for lunch.


bild = Creating Pro-Swpat Caselaw and Lobbying in Europe
spi = Preventing Investigations in the US
gajn = License income from IBM patent portfolio
eur = Recently a somewhat Cautious Policy in Europe?
patmov = IBM Patent Movement vs IBM
sslug0202 = IBM afraid of working with GNU/Linux because of the risk of infringing a patent
epat = IBM E-Patents at the European Patent Office (EPO)
tasks = Questions, Things To Do, How you can Help
links = Annotated Links

# http://www.cringely.com/2010/01/ibm-2010-customers-in-revolt/
# IBM Customers in Revolt


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