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Mark Webbink on software patents
Mark Webbink has been involved in campaigns against software patents and in campaigns to increase patent review efficiency.
During the EU software patents directive, Webbink was the primary lobbyist for Red Hat against software patents. Afterwards, he went on to work for peer-to-patent, a community patent review project.
External links
- A New Paradigm For Intellectual Property Rights In Software, by Webbink, May 2005
- Packaging Open Source, a paper which looks briefly at various free software licence patent clauses, December 2009