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| − | {{navbox}}During the lobbying around the [[EU software patents directive]], representatives of small and medium enterprises were against [[software patents]].
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| − | ==Reasons==
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| − | SMEs can't afford to get patents. (See: [[costs of patenting]])
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| − | The patent [[Incompatible timespans|grant process is too slow]]. SMEs have to get to profitability quickly to survive.
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| − | SMEs can't afford to check every idea they come up with to make sure that it hasn't already been patented by someone else.
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| − | SMEs can't afford to defend themselves against patent litigation, even if they're sure the patent is invalid.
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| − | SMEs [[Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work|can't even get insurance]] against the risk of unintentional patent infringement (insurance companies know when a risk is too big to take on.)
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| − | The cost of patent enforcement might excede the size of revenue they would be trying to protect.
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| − | ==Statements==
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| − | * [[Statements from CEA-PME]]
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| − | * [[Statements from UEAPME]]
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| − | * [[Statements from venture capitalists]]
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| − | ==Studies==
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| − | * [[Rethinking the European ICT agenda]] "''...most small enterprises are strongly opposed.''"
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| − | * [[Innovation in Germany, Windows of opportunity]] "''...SMEs are crucial providers of pathbreaking innovations, but would be most adversely affected by patentability....''"
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| − | ''(See other [[studies on economics and innovation]])''
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| − | ==Related pages on {{SITENAME}}==
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| − | * [[Some SMEs like software patents myth]] - when pro-swpat corporations pretend to speak for SMEs
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| − | * [[passive threats]] - a common way that SMEs are "targeted"
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| − | * [[Who owns software patents]]? - it's not the SMEs
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| − | * [[Costs of patenting]]
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * [http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090601/0007575076.shtml How Patents Are Harming Small Companies Too]
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| − | * [http://www.suepo.org/public/ex08103cpd.pdf Interview mentioning that 3% of patent applicants own 50% of the patents granted by the EPO], good quotes
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| − | * [http://www.economic-majority.com/testimony/index.en.php Economic Majority testemonials, mostly from SMEs], regarding the [[EU software patents directive]]
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| − | * {{translate fr|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20000118163954/www.lmi.fr/src/lmi/article/articlel.nsf/article/4A50754E3732918CC12567A0004BBA95?OpenDocument|title=Small publishers worry about being choked by patents}}
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