This info I would like to put to your attention as you seem to be right audience. Please forward the message to other colleagues.

As we already started to explain in Warsaw.

http://techrights.org/2015/11/05/copycamp-15-on-swpats/

The rejection of in the 2005 proposed European Directive for “Computer Implemented Inventions” did not mean that Europe is free from software patents. It is far from true. The rejection only meant that some – questionable – rules for software patenting were not accepted as obligatory.

The current situation is worse than ten years ago because courts in European countries are not setting proper limits on software patentability. We would like to talk about Polish bad and good examples, which remain unknown.

On the other hand, recent developments in the US are encouraging. After two important Supreme Court decisions in almost all software patents related cases courts voided the patents. It cannot happen in the EU. Unfortunately, no appeal to some non-specialised “supreme” court is foreseen in the new European patent court structure. The European Court of Justice was excluded from the system.

Europe should not stay behind the US. Two year ago the German Parliament unanimously decided upon a joint motion to limit software patents urging the government to take measures in this sense. In the German MPs’ opinion, supported by several associations, including FSFE, software should be covered exclusively by copyright, and the rights of the copyright holders should not be devalued by third parties’ software patents. Can we have similar resolution in the European Parliament? What action we need from German Government and European Commission?

https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130612-01.en.html

There are other initiatives against the Unitary Patent seen as the third major attempt to legalize software patents in Europe. http://www.esoma.org/forum/t-1162188/unitary-patent-challenged-at-the-belgia...

There is a clear need to return to a wider action against software patents. If you would like to contribute, please contact us. In the first place we have submitted a lecture at 32C3 – day 2, 28.12, 14:00, hall 6.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7283.html

Co-authors of the talk are Benjamin Henrion, president of FFII - an organisation that in the debate about European software patents gained some influence on the legislative process, Iga Balos assistant professor who is writing a study on Polish court software patent cases, and me, who pulled them together.

Best regards Jozef Halbersztadt