# -*- mode: makefile; srcfile: /eupat/int/intro/@lng.short_intro.en.txt; coding: utf-8 -*- # Time-stamp: <2010-04-12 01:11:02 phm> lfol = intro des = In 20 minutes you can learn what is going on in the fight about software patents in Brussels. Most of the complexities of the debate arise from a few simple parameters. When you have learnt these, you can hopefully feel confident to write well-informed articles about a fascinating political drama with far-reaching implications. kws = Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Logic 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 = Software Patents in Europe sut = A Short Overview antonis1003_tit = Software Patents in Europe antonis1003_des = speech by Antonis Christofides at Greek Openfest 2010-03-13 #EOF