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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.

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

ESOMA (a daughter organisation of FFII) has submitted a challenge to the Unitary Patent at Belgium's Constitutional Court.[4]

Related pages on ESP Wiki

External links

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

References