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Europarl 03-09-24ReactionsfaqAppealCEC 2003/11

Handlingsförslag (II)

Europaparlamentet har röstat för en lagstiftning som verkningsfullt undantar datorprogram och metoder för affärsverksamhet från det patenterbara området. Likväl är europeisk lagstiftning fortfarande i händerna på verkställande patentexperter som i många år förordat en obegränsad utvidgning av det patenterbara området. Denna situation erfordrar särskild uppmärksamhet och handfast ingripande av nationella parlamentariker och berörda medborgare.
  1. Vi är oroade över att
  2. Därför rekommenderar vi följande åtgärder
  3. Undertecknare
  4. Annotated Links
  5. Questions, Things To Do, How you can Help

1. Vi är oroade över att

  1. Europeiska patentverket (EPO) har, i strid med lagens ord och mening, beviljat tiotusentals patent på regler för beräkning med konventionell databehandlingsutrustning, nedan benämnda "mjukvarupatent".
  2. Europeiska kommissionen har föreslagit att legalisera dessa patent och göra det möjligt att enhetligt upprätthålla dem i hela Europa. Därigenom ignorerar kommissionen den uttryckta viljan och en välgrundad argumentation hos den överväldigande majoriteten av professionella programmerare, programvaruföretag, dataloger och ekonomer.
  3. Inflytelserika förespråkare har försökt vilseleda och skrämma Europaparlamentet. De presenterade kommissionens förslag som om undantog det datorprogram och metoder för affärsverksamhet från det patenterbara området, och hotade med att Europaparlamentet skulle förlora sin chans till deltagande om det röstade för en verklig begränsning av det patenterbara området.
  4. Eftersom Europaparlamentet inte lät sig vilseledas eller skrämmas, försöker nu inflytelserika patentexperter från olika regeringar och organisationer använda sig av rådet för att åsidosätta den parlamentariska demokratin inom EU.

2. Därför rekommenderar vi följande åtgärder

  1. Vi uppmanar det europeiska patentverket och de nationella patentverken att omedelbart upphöra bevilja patent på metoder för affärsverksamhet och metoder för databehandling - oavsett hur de presenteras, samt tillämpa europeiska patentkonventionens artikel 52 på ett korrekt sätt i enlighet med konventionella metoder för lagtolkning.
  2. Vi uppmanar ministerrådets medlemmar att avstå från att lägga motförslag till Europaparlamentets förslag, om inte sådana uttryckligen godkänts genom ett majoritetsbeslut i medlemslandets parlament.
  3. Vi uppmanar nationella parlamentsledamöter att formulera tydliga nationella riktlinjer för gränsdragandet kring det patenterbara området, samt att försäkra sig om att deras regeringars representanter i rådet troget följer dessa riktlinjer.
  4. Vi kräver att alla lagförslag, inklusive de från Europaparlamentet och medlemsländerna, grundligt prövas gentemot en testserie av utvalda patentansökningar för att säkerställa att de bortom allt tvivel leder till önskat resultat, och att de inte lämnar rum för fortsatt vantolkning.

3. Undertecknare

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Bent Hindrup Andersen (MEP, EDD, Danmark, http://www.j.dk)
Jens-Peter Bonde (MEP, EDD, Danmark, http://www.j.dk)
Johanna Boogerd (MEP, ELDR, Holland)
Hiltrud Breyer (MEP, VERD, Germania)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit (MEP, VERD, France)
Jan Dhaene (MEP, Belgium)
Raina Mercedes Echerer (MEP, VERD, Austria)
Pernille Frahm (MEP, GUE/NGL, Danmark)
Pierre Jonckheer (MEP, VERD, Belgium)
Piia-Noora Kauppi (MEP, PPE-DE, Suomi)
Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler (MEP, PSE, Germania)
Jean Lambert (MEP, VERD, UK)
Donald Neil (Professor) MacCormick (MEP, VERD, UK)
Caroline Lucas (MEP, VERD, UK)
Heide Rühle (MEP, VERD, Germania)
Ulla Sandbæk (MEP, EDD, Danmark, http://www.j.dk)
Olle Schmidt (MEP, ELDR, Sverige)
Bart Staes (MEP, VERD, Belgium, Groen!)
Claude Turmes (MEP, VERD, Luxemburg, DÉI GRÉNG)
Anders Wijkman (MEP, PPE-DE, Sverige)
Matti Wuori (MEP, VERD, Suomi)
Olga Zrihen (MEP, PSE, Belgium, PS)
Jens Holm (MEP candidate, Sverige)
Ellen Trane Nørby (MEP candidate, Danmark)
Dirk Van Der Maelen (Leader parliamentary faction of Flemish Social Democrats in Belgian Parliament, Belgium, SP.be)
Grietje Bettin (Member of the German Federal Parliament, Media Policy Speaker of the Green Party)
Gustav Fridolin (MP, Sverige)
Zoé Genot (MP, Belgium, ecolo.be)
Arseni Gibert (Senator of the Girona region for Entesa Catalana de Progrés)
Ulrich Kelber (Member of the German Federal Parliament (http://www.spd.de/))
Monica Lochner-Fischer (member of Bavarian Parliament, SPD)
Dr. Jan Van Duppen (Belgian Senator, Member of the Flemish Parliament, SP.a spirit)
CEA/PME (Confédération Européenne des Associations de Petites et Moyennes Entreprises) (contact: Walter Grupp)
Forbundet af IT-professionelle (PROSA.dk) (contact: Peter Ussing)
VOV@SPD (Internet Association of the German Social Democratic Party) (contact: Axel Schudak, Arne Brand & Boris Piwinger)
temPS réels (Internet Branch of the French Socialist Party) (contact: Thierry Noisette)
Opera Software (contact: Håkon Wium Lie, CTO)
Magix AG (contact: Oliver Lorenz, Head of Legal Department)
ESR Pollmeier GmbH (contact: Stefan Pollmeier, Managing Director)
FSG IT (contact: Lars Noschinski, Developer)
ObjectWeb (contact: Francois Letellier)
TFDesign s.r.o. (contact: Michal Zajic, Owner, Head Designer - civil engineering)
ashampoo Technology GmbH & Co. KG (contact: Hauke Duden)
Intelligent Firmware Ltd (contact: Michael Krech, Managing Director)
PETE SOFTWARE GmbH (contact: Thies Reinhold, CEO)
Phaidros AG (contact: Matthias Schlegel, CEO)
Power Media Sp. z o.o. (contact: Narczynski, Wojtek Jakub, CTO, VP & co-founder)
Myriad Software (contact: Guillion Didier)
MySQL (contact: Michael Widenius, Florian Mueller)
NEOlabs (contact: Jo De Baer)
Thorsten Lemke (Lemke Software GmbH, founder and owner)
Ulf Dunkel (invers Software Vertrieb & Dunkel Software Distribution, Managing Director)
Mind (contact: Dr. ir. Peter Vandenabeele, Managing Director)
Stefan Englert (Gesellschaft für Informatik und Produktionstechnik mbH, Managing Director)
Intevation GmbH (contact: Bernhard Reiter & Jan-Oliver Wagner)
RDG Software di 'Roberto Della Grotta' (contact: Roberto Della Grotta)
S.K.I. GmbH (contact: Michael Schlegel)
Bureau d'Etudes en Génie Informatique, Hasgard (contact: Bruno Berthelet)
Nexedi (contact: Jean-Paul Smets)
TRI-EDRE and TRI-EDRE Developments (contact: Thierry Rolland)
Stephan Körner (Managing Director, Pilum Technology GmbH)
Marco Schulze (Managing Director, Nightlabs GmbH)
Python Business Forum (contact: Jacob Hallén)
National Computer Helpdesk (contact: John Harris - Manager Support Services, Christopher Thompson - Director)
ROHOST (contact: Marius David)
AB STRAKT (contact: Laura Creighton, Venture Capitalist)
Prof. Martin Kretschmer (Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, Joint Director)
ROSPOT (contact: Cosmin Neagu)
Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz (Professor i Tysk och Europeisk lag, Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku, Japan)
Dr. Jean-Philippe Rennard (ekonom, informatiker, Managing Director, Eponyme SA)
Anders Skovsted Buch (Lector in mathematics, Aarhus University, Danmark)
Prof. Dr. Koen De Bosschere (Ghent University, Belgium)
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Philips (Ghent University, Belgium)
Dr. Michiel Ronsse (Ghent University)
Student Union Akku (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) (contact: Dieter Van Uytvanck)
Institut Biotecnologia i Biomedicina (Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Spain) (contact: Dr. Enrique Querol, Director)
Österreichische HochschülerInnenschaft -- Bundesvertretung (contact: Leonard Dobusch)
ANSOL - Associação Nacional para o Software Livre (contact: Jaime Villate, President)
APRIL (contact: Olivier Berger)
Catalan Linux User Group (CALIU)
Electronic Frontier Finnand (contact: Ville Oksanen, Tapani Tarvainen)
Europe Shareware (contact: Pascal Ricard & Sylvain Perchaud)
Association for Free Software (contact: Marc Eberhard)
Association of Free Software Professionals (contact: Neil Darlow)
Bürgernetzverband e.V. (contact: Eberhard Mittag)
Free Software Foundation Europe (contact: Georg Greve, president)
FSF France (contact: Frédéric Couchet)
German Unix User Group (GUUG.de, contact: Christian Lademann, vice president)
Internet Society Belgium (contact: Rudi Vansnick, president)
Internet Society Poland (contact: Wladek Majewski)
LSVB (Dutch National Student Union) (contact: Jurjen van den Bergh)
Patentverein.de (defense association of german SMEs against trivial patents) (contact: Heiner Flocke)
LSVB (The Dutch National Student Union) (contact: Jurjen van den Bergh)
Liberale Hochschulgruppe Ulm (contact: Markus Schaber)
Handlingsförslag (II) (contact: Erik Josefsson)
WINA-Leuven (Student Association of Students in Maths, Computer Sciences and Physics of the KU Leuven) (contact: Dominique Devriese)
VVS (Union of Flemish Students) (official standpoint)
Zeus WPI (Student Workgroup on Informatics of Ghent University) (contact: Jonas Maebe)
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (contact, Hartmut Pilch, Alex Macfie & Holger Blasum)
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4. Annotated Links

->European Software Patents: Assorted Examples
We came across the following impressive examples at first reading through our tabular listings of software patents. They were almost randomly chosen and thus approximately represent the technicity and inventivity standards of the European Patent Office. If anything distinguishes them from other patents it is the relative ease with which they can be understood at first sight by a fairly large public.
->Software Patents in Action
Collection of news stories and case studies showing how the granting, licensing and litigation of patents is affecting players in the software field.
->Quotations on Software Patents
Salient quotations from law texts, economic analyses, political documents as well as statements by programmers, politicians and other parties interested in the debate about software patents.
->Patentability Legislation Benchmarking Test Suite
In order to test a law proposal, we try it out on a set of sample innovations. Each innovation is described in terms of prior art, a technical contribution (invention) and a small set of claims. Assuming that the descriptions are correct, we then test our proposed legislation on them. The focus is on clarity and adequacy: does the proposed rule lead to a predictable verdict? Which of the claims, if any, will be accepted? Is this result what we want? We try out different law proposals for the same test series and see which scores best. Software professionals believe that you should "first fix the bugs, then release the code". Test suites are a common way of achieving this. Pursuant to Art 27 TRIPS, legislation belongs to a "field of technology" called "social engineering", doesn't it? Technology or not, it is time to approach legislation with the same methodological rigor that is applicable wherever bad design decisions can significantly affect people's lives.
->Europarl 2003-09-24: Amended Software Patent Directive
Consolidated version of the amended directive "on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions" for which the European Parliament voted on 2003-09-24.
->Reactions to the EU Parliament's Vote of 2003/09/24
Frits Bolkestein, Malcolm Harbour and other politicians have joined in a choir of patent lawyers who are saying that "the European Parliament ruined its chances of democratic participation" by failing to vote as the patent establishment had asked it to vote. Preparations are under way to withdraw the directive and legalise software patents by means of an agreement between national patent officials, who are used to deciding patent policies among themselves.
->EU Council 2004 Proposal on Software Patents
The Council of Ministers has reached political agreement on a paper which contains alternative suggestions to the amendments on the directive "on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions" passed by the European Parliament (EP). In contrast to the EP version, the council version permits unlimited patentability and patent enforceability. Following the current version, "computer-implemented" algorithms and business methods would be inventions in the sense of patent law, and the publication of a functional description of a patented idea would constitute a patent infringement. Protocols and data formats could be patented and would then not be freely usable even for interoperability purposes. These implications might not be apparent to the casual reader. Here we try to decipher the misleading language of the proposal and explain its implications.
->Europarl 2003/09 Software Patent Directive Amendments: Real vs Fake Limits
The European Parliament is scheduled to decide about the Software Patent Directive on September 24th. The directive as proposed by the European Commission demolishes the basic structure of the current law (Art 52 of the European Patent Convention) and replaces it by the Trilateral Standard worked out by US, European and Japanese Patent Offices in 2000, according to which all "computer-implemented" problem solutions are patentable inventions. Some members of the Parliament have proposed amendments which aim to uphold the stricter invention concept of the European Patent Convention, whereas others push for unlimited patentability according to the Trilateral Standard, albeit in a restrictive rhetorical clothing. We attempt a comparative analysis of all proposed amendments, so as to help decisionmakers recognise whether they are voting for real or fake limits on patentability.

5. Questions, Things To Do, How you can Help

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