Microsoft-sponsored "Listing of high growth companies" calls for EPLA http://epla.ffii.org/forum/t-48798/microsoft-sponsored-listing-of-high-growth-companies-calls-for-epla Posts in the discussion thread "Microsoft-sponsored "Listing of high growth companies" calls for EPLA" - "Europe's 500", set up by the EU Commission in 1996 has now apparently become a proxy for Microsoft's EU software patent ambitions. Time to warn the Commission about MS's monopolistic... oh, hang on... http://epla.ffii.org/forum/t-48798#post-130625 Microsoft-sponsored "Listing of high growth companies" calls for EPLA http://epla.ffii.org/forum/t-48798/microsoft-sponsored-listing-of-high-growth-companies-calls-for-epla#post-130625 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:16:54 +0000 pieterh 99 europe-500-sponsor.png

Just4Business reports:

“Europe’s 500“, which is an association of those European companies with the biggest growth, calls on the EU Commission and the EU member states to introduce a simplified and centralized European patent application procedure. Currently inventors have to pass through 27 different patenting procedures and have to fill in blanks in many languages according to EU member state so that applying for a patent may cost up to 150.000 Euros.

And when we take a look at Europe 500's sponsors page, who do we find at the top?

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