Briefs submitted to EPO EBA G3-08
From en.swpat.org
The following is information about briefs submitted in response to the European Patent Office's consultation EPO EBA referral G3-08.
The up to date list can be found at: http://www.epo.org/patents/appeals/eba-decisions/referrals/pending/briefs.html
[edit] Briefs that the EPO has already scanned and put online
- AIPPI - pro-swpat
- April - anti-swpat
- Bakels, R. - at a glance, not clearly for or against
- Balos, I. - neither for nor against, doesn't answer the questions
- Bayer, C. - anti-swpat
- BIKT et al - in German, says swpat are anti-constitutional under German law
- Butler, M.J. - pro-swpat, I think
- Canonical Group Ltd. - anti-swpat
- Combeau, J. - mixed
- Cowsley, C. - anti-swpat by intention, but some statements see misinterpretable
- De Keyzer - anti-swpat
- Duhme,Torsten, Dr. - pro-swpat
- epi - pro-swpat, pro-technical but in a weak way
- FFII Sweden - anti-swpat
- FSFE(epo.org scan) - anti-swpat
- G-N-U GmbH - in German, probably anti-swpat
- Gustavson, Stefan - anti-swpat, but some statements seem misinterpretable
- Hallén, Jacob - anti-swpat
- HISPALINUX - anti-swpat
- IBM - pro-swpat "novel logic arrangements that can be implemented otherwise than as a computer program are therefore not necessarily excluded by Article 52."
- IIPCT - pro-swpat, a patent consultant writing on behalf of 7 SMEs from the Microsoft lobby community
- Illuminet - anti-swpat
- intellect - pro-swpat
- IZGSE - pro-swpat, but to honest, not to be from an anti-swpatter
- JIPA - pro-swpat
- Lawrence, William - anti-swpat
- Nullmeier, M. - unclear
- Philips - pro-swpat
- Piratenpartei - in German
- Piratpartiet - inadmissable, anti-technical, refuses to answer the questions
- ScriptumLibre - unsure. Seemingly anti-swpat, but there are some strange sentences
- Sterckx, Sigrid, Prof. Dr. - anti-swpat, but it's long and I didn't read all
- Straus, Joseph, Prof. Dr. - inadmissable
- Sylvestris, T. - explains that the referral is inadmissible, contains interesting discussion of previous cases
- Thum, Simon - anti-swpat, I think
- Wessel, A. - anti-swpat
[edit] Briefs submitted but not yet on the EPO's site
- End Software Patents
- Red Hat
- FFII submitted a brief (separate from that of FFII Sweden)
- IFSO.ie submitted a brief
- tmplab
