Briefs submitted to EPO EBoA G3-08

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

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

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

External links

• ipjur.com looks at trends in the submitted briefs