descr: During this two-day interdisciplinary conference in Brussels, near and in the European Parliament, we will bring together programmers, engineers, entrepreneurs, law scholars, economists and politicians to explore the whole chain of causality from proposed patent law regulations to European policy goals, such as promoting innovation, competition, enterpreneurial spirit and consumer protection, unbureaucratic and target-oriented governance, legal security, favorable conditions for small and medium enterprises and %(q:becoming the world's most competitive information society by 2010). title: 2003/05/07-08 BXL: Software Patents: From Legal Wordings to Economic Reality mnl: Time and Place prog: Schedule aWo: Organisers and Sponsors sra: Simultaneous interpreting at least for DE-EN and FR-EN is available throughout the event. Whe: When? Wee: Where? Wha: What? WWt: Symposium I: From Legal Semantics to Granted Software Patents Dne: Dinner rlr: Greens Conference in Europarl rSE: Software Patents and Small & Medium Enterprises teW: Rally with Performance nfx: Symposium II: Economic Impact of Software Patents nti: Open Society Institute eWW: more to be listed soon 0en: 2003/05/08 Brussels Software Patent Event Organisation Wiki bmW: Alexandre Dulaunoy of AEL.be and friends from all over Europe are working to offer optimal onsite support for guests to the May 2003 European (Anti) Software Patent Event in Brussels. see: Comments of Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz on the conference pea: Numerous photos from most of the sessions of this 2-day conference efh: Dr. Lenz on the incoherence of the Software Patent Directive Proposal of the European Commission and Arlene McCarthy, with references to our conference eaW: Report about the conference, labels FFII as %(q:militants of free software) and says that SMEs are on the side of the militants this time. Sees large monopolists such as Microsoft as the only beneficiaries and apparent driving forces behind the EU's push for software patents. nWW: contains speeches and biographies of speakers mra: starts from morning of 2003/05/07, but first few minutes of Lessig speach seem to be lost # Local Variables: ; # coding: utf-8 ; # srcfile: /ul/prg/src/mlht/app/swpat/swpatpenmi.el ; # mailto: mlhtimport@a2e.de ; # passwd: XXXX ; # feature: swpatdir ; # dok: swpparl035 ; # txtlang: en ; # End: ;