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Revision as of 16:50, 2 April 2015
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) was the most influential group in the EU software patents directive from 1999 until the directive's rejection in 2005. Software patent activism in Europe greatly decreased after 2005 but FFII maintained certain activities including the EU unitary patent and Unified Patent Court.
ESOMA is a daughter organisation[1] of FFII.
Contents
EU software patents directive 1999-2005
FFII popularised The Patented Webshop.
FFII requested and are working on the re-examination of Amazon's gift ordering patent by the European Patent Office.Can you help? This needs a date. Is it still ongoing?
2005-2015
FFII submitted comment to the European Patent Office for the consultation EBoA referral G3-08.[2]
They also filed an amicus brief for the US Supreme Court case Bilski v. Kappos (2010, USA).[3]
Challenging the Unitary Patent in Belgium, 2015
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Erik Josefsson on software patents
- The EuroLinux petition - FFII was a prominent member of this coalition
External links
- ffii.org - main FFII homepage
- FFII's letters (a selection)
- FFII has many sub-sites, some of which focus on software patents such as:
- http://www.economic-majority.com/
- http://eupat.ffii.org/
- FFII's analysis of ACTA
- http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ - a petition by Ivan Villanueva of FFII (in the spirit of The EuroLinux petition)
- http://www.digitalmajority.org/ - news maintained by Benjamin Henrion
- How Software Patents Really Work (video, by FFII-UK)
Can you help? There is useful information about software patents on the following sites, but we need help to find the key pages:
General links by or about FFII
- A 2009 Bilski v. Kappos brief by FFII et al. (See: Bilski v. Kappos amicus briefs)
- YouTube video: How software patents work
- German original: List of news articles about FFII (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- Slides from a presentation by Benjamin Henrion, June 2009
- German original: Interview with André Rebentisch, January 2010 (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- (in German) Software-Patente. Nicht schon wieder!, May 2010, presentation by Peter Gerwinski
- FFII, Wikipedia
References
- ↑ "ESOMA: Declaration of support". http://www.esoma.org/esoma:support. "We support Esoma and its parent organisation, the FFII."
- ↑ "Software patents plot buried under amicus avalanche". https://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/Software%20patents%20plot%20buried%20under%20amicus%20avalanche.
- ↑ "FFII and IP Justice file Bilski Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court". http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/FFII%20and%20IP%20Justice%20file%20Bilski%20Amicus%20Brief%20to%20the%20Supreme%20Court.
