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Revision as of 06:59, 4 April 2014

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Why abolish software patents

See also: Category:Arguments and list of arguments

Dispelling myths

Partial steps toward our goal

Insufficient and failing remedies

The following are not solutions. None will solve the problem, many are inefficient wastes of time, and some even make the situation worse.

Insufficient and failing remedies:

See also: Category:Non-solutions

Campaigning notes

Helping out

Specific domains

Unsorted

Do our proposals exclude this from patentability?

Context and introductions

Court ruling analyses

Ordered per region, then newest first. (Also: Cat:Court rulings)

Australia: (overview)

Canada: (overview)

EUCJ:

France:

Germany: (overview) (category)

Japan:

Israel: (overview)

Netherlands:

UK: (overview) (category)

USA: (overview) (category)

Patent office decisions

Ordered per patent office, then newest first.

Australia: (overview)

Canada: (overview)

European Patent Office: (overview)

France: (overview)

India: (overview)

Israel: (overview)

Japan: (overview)

New Zealand: (overview)

South Africa: (overview)

UK: (overview)

USA: (overview)

Organisations

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See also: Category:Organisations

International agreements

Specific patents and infringement suits

Papers, studies, books

Statements

People

Michel BarnierTim Berners LeeJames BessenDan BricklinJohn CarmackBrad FeldBill GatesAndy GroveErik JosefssonElena KaganBrian KahinDavid A. KennedyBen KlemensDonald KnuthBradley KuhnTimothy B. LeePhilip LeithDavid MartinFlorian MuellerMichael MeurerEben MoglenCiarán O'RiordanFrançois PellegriniBruce PerensSimon PhippsRichard PosnerDan RavicherGiles Sutherland RichPamela SamuelsonRichard StallmanBen SturmfelsLinus TorvaldsEric Von HippelMark WebbinkDavid A. Wheeler