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When it comes to legal hacking in patent law, the patent establishment seems to be well connected to the European Commission. After the ECJ opinion on the central patent court, the European Commission is now trying to find a solution to go on with some kind of supra-national system 25 countries that would be legally outside outside of the European Union. The Commission is inventing new ways of making legislation outside of the EU framework, especially when patent applicants do not want to see patent law integrated inside the European Union´s set of laws, the "acquis communautaire".
by: zoobabzoobab
19 May 2011 15:46
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Notes on a secret hearing of Council delegations at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been leaked on internet. The European Court of Justice seems to have some doubt over the lack of control of the European Patent Office (EPO).
by: zoobabzoobab
09 Jun 2010 18:01
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The Staff Union of the EPO sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, warning of risks integrated into the accession of the European Union to the European Patent Convention (EPC). They warn that the European Parliament can be circumvented as a legislator in patent law.
by: zoobabzoobab
11 May 2010 07:08
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FFII has argued at the KnowRights2010 conference in Vienna that the UPLS central patent court was designed to rubberstamp software patents in Europe.
by: zoobabzoobab
07 May 2010 08:14
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09 May 2010 19:05 Jump!
The United Patent Litigation System (UPLS) is an international treaty which aims to create an international patent court in Europe. Here are 6 reasons to oppose the United Patent Litigation System (UPLS).
by: zoobabzoobab
16 Apr 2010 08:41
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A journalist of WorldIPReview recently asked FFII what were its views of the proposed United Patent Litigation System (UPLS), which is now being questioned by the Council in a submission to the ECJ. FFII had already published a press release mentioning the new push for software patents in Europe via a centralised and trusted court.
by: zoobabzoobab
08 Jul 2009 11:45
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12 Mar 2010 12:59 Jump!
In its edition of IP Value 2007, the Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) was publishing an article about the Reform of European Patent System, where an expert mentions that the push for the EPLA is coming from the pro-software patents lobby.
by: zoobabzoobab
09 Jun 2009 09:43
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The European Commission is pushing for software patents via a centralised trusted patent court that would be created with the United Patent Litigation System (UPLS), an international treaty that would remove national courts. This court system would be shielded against any review by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Thus patent judges would have the last word on software patents.
by: zoobabzoobab
12 May 2009 09:19
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Hartmut Pilch, founder of the FFII, had the right vision in 2007 about the EU-EPLA project. Here is what he said about the future specialized patent court in Europe.
by: zoobabzoobab
11 May 2009 12:20
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The Council seeks to legalise software patents with the Community Patent, says Mr Pellegrini, ex-advisor of Michel Rocard, former MEP and rapporteur on the rejected software patent directive. The ultimate goal of this move is to create central caselaw on software patents by a specialized patent court.
by: zoobabzoobab
11 Feb 2009 14:17
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"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...
by: pieterhpieterh
24 Mar 2008 19:16
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The Council and the Commission has answered a question from an italian MEP Marco Cappato on the quality of patents granted, and the future Community patent. The National Patent Offices who are populating the Working Group on Patents of the Council have really few things to say about patent quality.
by: zoobabzoobab
29 Feb 2008 14:43
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Joff Wild, chief editor of the IAM magazine, admits on his blog that the creation of a central patent court in Europe will be instrumental in legalizing software patents.
by: zoobabzoobab
03 Feb 2008 19:13
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The EPO will held its next European Patent Forum and European Inventor of the Year 2008 in Ljubljana. The event will be co-organised by the European Patent Office, the government of Slovenia, the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office and the European Commission. Slovenia will hold the EU Council Presidency in the first half of 2008. The EPO is already lobbying the Slovenian Presidency to get a central court to validate software patents.
by: zoobabzoobab
11 Dec 2007 17:36
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It seems, looking at the wording of an answer to a parliamentary question on patents, that the Commission did not receive the award "Worst Privilege Access 2006" for cheating the patent consultation of 2006.
by: zoobabzoobab
26 Nov 2007 11:10
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In June 2007, the German EU Presidency conducted a symposium ‘The Future of the European Patent Judiciary’, which tried to give new momentum to “industry” calls for uniform enforcement of EPO-granted English-only patents by means of an international patent court that is closely linked to the EPO.
by: pieterhpieterh
31 Oct 2007 16:23
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