Vote in the middle of December, today (17.10.2006) we successfully tabled amendments with liberal party for the ITRE committee.
IPRED2, will reshape the look on patent legislation within judgment where as abusing the patents will be prosecuted as criminal action. Basically, abusing patents can put us in jail.
Our goal is to amend the directive in it's developing process inside European Parliament to more secure directive or reject it as whole.
EPLA - European Patent Litigation Agreement
Reformation risk of Patent procedures:
Situation endangerment for SMEs in all member countries
Negative impact for initiatives of European Commission for open technologies in public sector of member states
complicated situation of international corporation focusing on ICT sector
restraint of any software development without proper patents
current reading will allow creation of complicated patents, which means for one process there can be several patents
biggest problem will be cross patenting, whereas many inventions share the same principles, e.g. almost every graphical application is using double click
Impact
Upcoming directives will make:
putting patents on the edge of European Community democratic control (Parliament, Commission, Council, and so on)
ignoring already rejected directives from European Parliament about patents
Criminal sanctions for abusing of patents
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