Software Patents in Europe

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These documents explain how software patents will influence very different areas of society and economy.

How the European patent system works (2012-09-05)
A blogpost by the President of FSFE Karsten Gerloff
Submission to European Patent Office (EPO) on Software Patents (2009-04-29)
Karlsruhe Memorandum against software patentability in Europe (2005-06-25)
Software patents - a danger to democracy (2005-06-06)
Open Letter to Mr. Mr Borrell Fontelles, President of the European Parliament by Georg Greve
European Commission is going to undermine some of its best work (2005-05-02)
Open Letter to Mr. Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services by Georg Greve
Software patents putting International Financial Report Standards (IFRS) in danger (2005-04-05)
Open Letter to Mr. Rudy Provoost, President of the European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA) by Georg Greve
European Cities will suffer from software patents (2005-03-07)
Open Letter to Mrs. Catherine Parmentier, Chief Executive Officer of EUROCITIES by Georg Greve
Software patents harm banks (2005-02-07)
Open Letter to Mr. Nout Wellink, President of the International Bank of Settlements by Georg Greve
Software patents are bad for your health (2005-01-03)
Open letter to Mr. Lee, General Secretary of the World Health Organisation (WHO) by Georg Greve
Software patents detrimental to European power supply business (2004-12-06)
Open letter to Mr. Haider, President of the Union of the Electricity Industry - EURELECTRIC by Georg Greve
Software patents are like firefighting with petrol (2004-11-01)
Open letter to Mr. Barroso by Georg Greve
Allianz Group will suffer because of software patents (2004-10-04)
Open letter to Mr. Diekmann, CEO of Allianz Group by Georg Greve
No software patents, conserve competitive advantage! (2004-09-06)
Open letter to the Dutch Prime Minister Dr. Balkenende by Georg Greve
Software patents will destroy the foundations of IBM's future (2004-08-02)
Open letter to Dr. Wladawsky-Berger of IBM by Stefano Maffulli and Georg Greve
Open Letter to the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG) on software patents (2004-07-06)
Open letter to Prof. Bullinger by Georg Greve
Open letter to Prof. Köhler on software patents (2004-05-31)
Open letter to Prof. Köhler, designated German President by Georg Greve
Open letter to all citizens of Europe (2004-05-10)
Open letter on software patents by Georg Greve and Hartmut Pilch

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