DGMarkt Consultation 2000	PbT Consultants	Günther Schölch	Brian Kahin	EuroLinux	GI e.V.

CEC Software Patent Consultation 2000 Submissions: ISOC LU

On behalf of Internet Society of Luxembourg, Patrick Vande Walle explains that software patents attack the foundations of the Internet and have various nefarious effects on software innovation and standardisation in general and on SMEs and opensource software in particular. Demands that the practise of the European Patent Office be brought in line with the law rather than codified into a directive

author:

ISOC LU

Date of Submission:

2000

files:

walle.pdf and local copy

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