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'''<span style="color: #bb0000; font-size: larger;">*</span>&nbsp;Welcome to the ESP Wiki&nbsp;<span style="color: #bb0000; font-size: larger;">*</span>'''<br />
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(For ''End Software Patents<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' campaign site, see http://endsoftpatents.org)
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Here you'll find information to assist campaigns against software patents.<br />
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You're also invited to contribute: all {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} pages are publicly editable.<br />
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(What's new?  See: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&limit=500 Recent Changes])
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'''Getting started:''' [[finding things on en.swpat.org]] • [[Talk:Discuss this wiki|Discuss this wiki]] • [[Why abolish software patents]]
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==Why abolish software patents==
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* [[All businesses are targets]]
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* [[Antitrust doesn't work]]
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* [[Blocking innovation and research]]
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* [[Blocking useful freedoms]]
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* [[Blocks competing software, reducing choice]]
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* [[Breaks software distribution methods]]
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* [[Controlling entire markets]]
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* [[Costs are astronomically disproportionate for SMEs and individuals]]
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* [[Costs of the patent system to governments]]
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* [[Examples of use for sabotage]]
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* [[Freedom of expression]]
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* [[Harm to standards]]
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* [[Harms to education]]
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* [[Hindering competition, obstructing the free market]]
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* [[Incompatible timespans]]
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* [[Inequality between small and large patent holders]]
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* [[Infringement is unavoidable]]
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* [[Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work]]
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* [[Invalid patents remain unchallenged]]
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* [[Jobs and skills]]
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* [[Just a Use of the Patented General Purpose Computer]]
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* [[Low risk]]
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* [[Patent ambush]]
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* [[Patent trolls]]
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* [[Publishing information is made dangerous]]
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* [[Software is math]]
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* [[Software is too abstract, patent quality is bad]]
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* [[Software patents harm SMEs]] (Small and Medium Enterprises)
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* [[Software progress happens without patents]]
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* [[Speculation]]
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* [[The disclosure is useless]]
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* [[The failing solutions are expensive]]
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{{also|:Category:Arguments|list of arguments}}
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==Dispelling myths==
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* [[Protecting small inventors myth]]
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* [[Some SMEs like software patents myth]]
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* [[Patent standards here are higher than the USA]]
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* [[The win-win patent myth]]
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==Partial steps toward our goal==
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* [[Interoperability exceptions]]
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* [[Invalidate patents based on subject matter]]
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==Insufficient and failing remedies==
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The following '''are not solutions'''.  None will solve the problem, many are inefficient wastes of time, and some even make the situation worse.
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[[Insufficient and failing remedies]]:
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* [[Defensive patent pools]]
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* [[Prior art database]] including "defensive publication"
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* [[Patent clauses in software licences]]
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* [[Community patent review]]
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* [[Invalidate the most harmful]]
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* [[Raising examination standards]]
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* [[Defensive patenting]]
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* [[Changing company patent policy]]
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* [[Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work]]
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* [[Antitrust doesn't work]]
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* [[Competition law defence]]
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{{also|:Category:Non-solutions}}
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==Campaigning notes==
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* [[Organising a campaign]]
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* [[Formulating arguments]]
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* [[Making leaflets]]
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* What '''not''' to suggest: [[Insufficient and failing remedies]]
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==Helping out==
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* [[Links to be processed]]
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* [[Ideas for info to gather]]
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* [[Please help find these documents]]
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* [[Talk:Discuss this wiki]]
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* There's a [[sandbox]] page for test edits
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* [[:Category:En.swpat.org]]
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==Specific domains==
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* [[micro-blogging patents]]
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* [[audio-video patents]]
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* [[XML patents]]
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* [[Webpage and web service patents]]
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* [[Image processing patents]]
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* [[HTML5 and video patents]]
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* [[Harm to standards]]
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==Unsorted==
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* [[Cablegate info on software patents]]
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* [[Corruption and bullying]]
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* [[Free software]]
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* [[Legal wordings]]
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* [[List of recordings and transcripts]]
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** [[Boston swpat conference 2006 videos]]
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* [[Patent lawyer]]
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* [[Patent non-aggression pacts]]
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* [[Patent promises]]
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* [[Patents possibly violated by swpat.org]]
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* [[Related Wikipedia articles]]
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* [[Should the whole patent system be axed]]?
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* [[Sources of software patent news]]
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** [[Groklaw]]
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** [[IFOSSLR patent articles]]
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* [[Specialised patent court]]
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* [[Technical solutions, not technical problems]]
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* [[Timeline]]
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* [[Webpages that disappeared]]
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* [[Which sectors are for and against]]
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* [[Who lobbied for software patents]]
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* [[Why software is different]]
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==Do our proposals exclude this from patentability?==
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* [[Anti-lock braking example]] (no)
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* [[mp3 audio example]] (yes)
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* [[digital camera image processing example]] (yes)
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* [[Other analyses of the patentability of specific ideas]]
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==Context and introductions==
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* [[General introduction]]
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* [[Analogies]]
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* [[Choosing words to use in legal proposals]]
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* [[Terminology recommendations]]
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* [[Criteria for patentability]] - ''What'' is patentable?
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* [[Do software patents exist in my area]]?
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* [[Searching for patents]]
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* [[Reading case law]]
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* [[Invention as a whole]]
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* [[Patentable subject matter]]
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* [[Software patents]]
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* [[Technical solutions, not technical problems]]
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* [[Patenting software in ROM]]
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* [[Glossary]]
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==Court ruling analyses==
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{{court rulings worldwide}}
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==Patent office decisions==
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{{patent office decisions list}}
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==Organisations==
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[[Acacia Research Corporation|Acacia]] •
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[[Adobe]] •
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[[Blackboard inc.|Blackboard]] •
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[[Xerox and Fuji Xerox‎]]
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==International agreements==
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* [[International agreements]]
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* [[TRIPS]]
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* [[ACTA]]
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** [[ACTA-6437-10.pdf as text]]
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* [[Europe|EU or Europe]]:
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** [[European Patent Office]]
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** [[EU Community Patent]]
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** [[European Patent Litigation Agreement]]
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** [[EU software patents directive]]
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==Specific patents and infringement suits==
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* [[Xerox Corp v. Google Inc et al (2010, USA)|Xerox vs Google and Yahoo, 2010]]
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* [[Software Tree vs Red Hat, 2009]]
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* [[Microsoft vs TomTom, 2008]]
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* [[Trend Micro vs Barracuda, 2008]]
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* [[Microsoft vs AT&T, 2006]]
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* [[Uniloc vs Microsoft, 2009]]
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* [[Fotomedia Technologies vs the World 2009]]
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* [[Example software patents]]
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** [[Amazon]]'s [[The one-click shopping patent|one-click shopping]] and [[Amazon's gift ordering patent|gift ordering]]
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** [[Microsoft's FAT patents]]
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** [[CSIRO wifi patent]]
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** [[Apple Dock]]
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** [[VoloMedia's podcasting patent]]
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==Papers, studies, books==
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* [[Books about software and patents]]
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* [[Studies on economics and innovation]]
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** [[Gowers Review of Intellectual Property]], Andrew Gowers for HM Treasury UK, December 2006
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** [[Rethinking the European ICT agenda]], PriceWaterhouseCoopers, September 2004
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** [[Innovation in Germany, Windows of opportunity]], Deutsche Bank Research, June 2004
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** [[An Empirical Look at Software Patents]], Bessen and Hunt, March 2004
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** [[US FTC report on innovation]], US Federal Trade Commission, October 2003
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** [[Network Competition Through Regulation report]], German Monopoly Commission, 2002
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* [[The EuroLinux petition]]
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* Studies by concerned parties:
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** [[2008 State of Software Patents]]
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==Statements==
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* [[Statements and quotes]]
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** [[Statements from venture capitalists]]
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** [[Statements from developers]]
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** [[Statements from BEUC]]
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** [[Statements from CEAPME]]
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** [[Statements from UEAPME]]
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==People==
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Revision as of 11:49, 7 October 2015

* Welcome to the ESP Wiki *

(For End Software Patents' campaign site, see http://endsoftpatents.org)


Here you'll find information to assist campaigns against software patents.
You're also invited to contribute: all 670 pages are publicly editable.
(What's new? See: Recent Changes)

Getting started: finding things on en.swpat.orgDiscuss this wikiWhy abolish software patents

Don't know where to add something? Put it on this list: links to be processed.

Countries and regions: ArgentinaAustraliaBelgiumBrazilCanadaChileChina, People's Republic ofCosta RicaCubaDenmarkEuropeFinlandFranceGermanyIndiaIrelandIsraelJapanMalaysiaMexicoNew ZealandPhilippinesPolandRussiaSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUSAUnited KingdomUruguayVenezuela

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

AcaciaAdobeAIPLAAIPPIAlcatel-LucentAmazonAppleAprilBEUCBlackboardBorlandc4cCanonicalCPTNCEA-PMEDellDigitude InnovationsEFFEnd Software PatentsEolasFFIIFSFFSFEEricssonGoogleHewlett-PackardHTCIBMIEEE-USAIntelIntellectual VenturesIPACLPFLGELodsysMacroSolveMicrosoftMotorolaMPEG LANeweggNokiaNovellNTPNZICTOINOperaOraclePhilipsRed HatRockstarSamsungSAPSGISiemensSFLCSonySunSUEPOSymantecTiVoUEAPMEUnilocUS govtW3CWebventionWIPOYahooXerox and Fuji Xerox‎

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