Suggestions for interviewees

End Software Patents will soon start publishing a series of interviews on news.swpat.org.

Who should be interviewed? What should they be asked?

Suggestions

Dan Ravicher

• patent attorney
• would Microsoft's Community Promise still protect us if they sold their patents to a troll company?

Someone from League for Programming Freedom

• Was LPF the first anti-swpat organisation?
• About what they achieved
  • Getting the duration of secrecy reduced to 18 months, IIRC
• What was different in the early, back when today's megacorps were anti-swpat (1994 USPTO software patent hearings‎)

Erik Josefsson

Erik's been involved in lots of things, but his work is often under-publicised

• The Patent Bay
• What's happening now in the European Parliament
• ACTA
• Working with the Pirate Party

Benjamin Henrion

• president of FFII
• UPLS

Someone from Hamakor?

• http://news.swpat.org/2010/02/hamakor-to-israeli-patent-office-from-hamakor/
• Status of Israeli consultation
• What were the other briefs like?

Andrew Tridgell

• His NZ talk
• What's happening in Aus?

Karsten Gerloff

• WIPO work he's done
• The March 22nd meeting

Interviews posted so far

• Brad Feld