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Marcel.Kolaja
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resolution of enterprises against software patents

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Ahoj KKI,

dostal se mi do ruky následující dopis od FFII:
FFII píše:Dear Marcel Kolaja,

We are contacting xxxxxxxx as a former supporter of the
"Economic Majority" campaign (http://economic-majority.com/), launched
by the FFII regarding a legislative project which tried to legalise
software patents in the EU.

Support from enterprises has repeatedly been decisive for our work, as
exemplified by the successful defusing of the software patent directive
in 2005. Although this has prevented software patents from being
enforceable in Europe, the European Patent Office (EPO) is still
granting such patents.

As soon as the Parliament returns after the summer break, Members of the
European Parliament will debate on a draft regulation about a unitary
patent and on a draft international agreement setting up a unified
patent court. But this project amounts to rubber stamp EPO's practices
of granting software patents, which would be enforceable before a court
that is likely to follow EPO's case law.

In a debate where the position of patent attorneys and judges is yet the
only one to be heard, we wish to ask for your involvement to highlight
the damage the current project would cause to European ICT enterprises.

Please let us know by answering this mail whether xxxxxxxx
would accept to publicly support the resolution below.

For more information on the unitary patent, please see the dedicated
website: http://www.unitary-patent.eu

Yours sincerely,

Benjamin Henrion, FFII president


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Resolution
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Our company is worried about the current plans to set up a unitary
patent with a flanking unified patent court.

The European Patent Office (EPO)'s practices to grant software patents,
under the deceiving term of “computer-implemented inventions”, pose a
threat to our professional activities.

We are concerned that the regulation on the unitary patent, as agreed in
December 2011 by the negotiators of the Council, the Commission, and the
Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament, leaves any and
every issue on the limits of patentability to the EPO's case law,
without any democratic control or review by an independent court.

The regulation on the unitary patent is an opportunity for the EU
legislators to harmonise substantive patent law in the EU institutional
and jurisdictional framework, and to put an end to the EPO's
self-motivated practices extending the realm of patentability to
software. Failing to do so, this unitary patent will do more harm than
good to the EU ICT firms.

For these reasons, we urge legislators to adopt amendments which clearly
state that the EPO's decisions are subject to a review from the Court of
Justice of the European Union, and which reaffirm the rejection of
software patentability, as expressed by the vote of the European
Parliament on September 24th, 2003 and July 6th, 2005.

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Marcel Kolaja
kvestor Evropského parlamentu

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