1 Events

• 2006-11-25 EUPACO-0 and FFII General Assembly, Hartmut Pilch becomes treasurer of the FFII
• 2006-10-28 1st tentative programme for Nov 25 Munich conference
• 2006-10-12 European Parliament turns around European Patent Lobby Autocracy (EPLA) motion (→ EPLA)
• 2006-10-05 Yet another consultation: “The Commission is seeking views of all interested parties on this follow-up study and invite them to submit their contributions by 31 December 2006.”
• 2006-09-29 FFII action against patent plans in European Parliament
• 2006-09-21 Lehne launches PR in favor of EPLA
• 2006-09-20 [Legal study says patents had little effect on software industry https://www.aful.org/wws/arc/patents/2006-09/msg00003.html]
• 2006-09-16 FFII Discussion Paper: Toward a Copyright-based system of Innovation Exclusivity
• 2006-09-15 Rocard questions litigation costs before EPLA court
• 2006-09-15 PA Horns: Pirate Party movement creating german organisation, lashed by FFII
• 2006-09-10 Hartmut Pilch speaks at a Paraflows in Vienna
• 2006-09-08 McCreevy: IPR –- Next Steps: the Commissioner for the Internal Market announces a push for the European Patent Litigation Agreement
• 2006-09-07 Microsoft’s US patent application for conjugation of verbs
• 2006-09-04 Florian Müller: How they are trying again to legalize software patents in Europe
• 2006-09-02 FFII letter to patent judges
• 2006-07-20 Microsoft “Principles” promise “fair” licensing terms for some patents
• 2006-03-15 European Parliament rejects Lehne push for mutual recognition ot national patents
• 2006-03-12 FFII publishes positions, asks for participation in EU patent consultation
• 2006-03-07 Banana Union Day, 22 Questions remain unanswered
• 2006-02-23 German Justice Ministry Pro-Patent PR Event and Spiegel Interview of EPO president

2 FFII Documentation and Analysis

• FFII
• Software Patents in Europe
  • European Parliament’s Majority Position on Software Patents
• No Software Patents
• Industrial Copyright
• Patent Examination System Reform

3 How to Get in Touch

• http://aktiv.ffii.org/
• http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/bxl
• IRC
• This site can be edited collectively via subversion, based on simple e-mail-like text files. If you are interested in working on it, please contact the editor

4 What’s Hot

4.1 Third Push for EU Software Patents

A movement to install EPO caselaw at the EU level has started, see the %(sn:news), such as

• %(rd:Regdeveloper.co.uk: EC Patents Directive Revived)

Florian Müller has worked out an excellent summary of the current situation.

FFII has been active on this issue as well. Some work can be found at

• http://wiki.ffii.org/ComPat060118En
• http://wiki.ffii.org/ComPat060119En
• http://wiki.ffii.org/ComPatCecConsultation0601En
• http://wiki.ffii.org/ComPatEn
• http://wiki.ffii.org/ComPatIsSwEn
• http://wiki.ffii.org/ComPatParlQuestionsEn
• http://wiki.ffii.org/FairyTale060116En
• http://wiki.ffii.org/LtrMcCreevy051223En

Since the beginning of this year, the board of FFII has been meeting every 2 months in a different location in Europe. The next is Madrid, planned for 9th of October. Much more on such issues can be found in the internal section of this site.

5 Other Incoming News

• 2006-09-04 FFII donor Henrik Ingo publishes book ‘Open Life’