| task | description | who? | status |
|---|
| Paper Digitalisation | copy journal articles from libraries and digitalise them. Create internal documentation. | holger, phm | Holger has digitalised a pile of articles. Hartmut has further processed them and presented them in an internal archive. The text files are full of OCR errors. There is a lot of legal and little economic literature. |
| Horror Gallery | The EPO has granted numerous patents on organisational methods, such as buying based on a cooking recipe. These must be found and collected. |
| article reviews | individually review articles from the the internal digital archive and publish the reviews in our review archive, so as to make useful excerpts accessible. |
| petition address database | collect addresses of political decisionmakers and make them available in a suitable form so that they can be inserted in to the Eurolinux Letter Generator. | | Hartmut has manually collected a few important addresses. |
| mobilise companies | there is a potential of 1000s of companies in whose interest it would be to support our petition. | | Hartmut has written to some. We have a plan for doing this job in a professional way, involving some people who need to be paid. |
| statement database | numersous companies and politicians have published opinions. These should be made handily available for quotation and linking. |
| advertisement tools | stickers, posters, t-shirts and other items should be made available | arnim? | For our Linuxtag presentation, Arnim and Felix prepared stickers and showboards, Holger printed t-shirts, and we also had a flyer |
| integration of the documentation CD | The Documentation CD made by Intevation should be reworked, freed from redundant information, database-driven and integrated with the rest of available documentation. | intevation? frontsite? |
| GPPL | Possible usefule license-schemes for mutual defense should be formulated. The GPPL will allow use of the technology only in systems which as a whole can be reimplemented under GPL, thus providing an incentive for patent owners to allow use of their patent under GPL. | | GPPL discussion |
| articles in patent law journals | Breach the united front of patent lawyers. Let oppositional opinions be heard in their flagships like GRUR. | holger? |
| book | collect printable documents and prepare them for a book form. contact o'reilly or other publishers. | arnim? |
| patent applications | apply for a patent and place it under GPPL |
| ligitation | procure informations about published patents at EPO/DPMA and file a lawsuit based on non-patentability | |
| monthly CD | burn 1 CDROM per month and deliver it at libraries (Stabi, DPMA) |
| TV, Radio | design tv and radio programs on patent inflation and contact stations |
| talks with Siemens | We have a few addresses of Siemens managers who don't like software patents. We could get Siemens to move back on their pro swpat position, which is dictated by the patent department. |
| task | description | who? | status |
|---|
| german translation of http://petition.eurolinux.org/reference/ | The reference documents allow an easy understanding for outsiders. Translation of this is very important. translate french or english version and send it to petition@eurolinux.org. | | some visitors have complained about the lack of a german version. |
| flyers | create condensed 1-2 page flyers for different audiences. |
| newspaper advertisments | prepare 1-page newspaper ads that can be placed in journals as soon as we get enough money from sponsors |
| popularisation | simple description of the subject so as to reach a larger audience | xuan | http://www.save-our-software.de |
| letter to BMJ on EPC art 52 | The EPO's Basic Proposal is available. We must react until end of August. | phm | |
| worksession in Munich | we should meet for a weekend. |
| EU Parliament conference | EU parliamentarians have agreed to organise a conference. |
| Copying in MPI library | article hints from Mr Tauchert: "zur allgemeinen geistigen Aufrüstung und speziell zur Systematik aus der Sicht der "Patentjuristen" empfehle ich die Artikel von Busche (Schutz von Computerprogrammen) und Schickedanz (zu mathematischen Methoden und Formeln) in "Mitteilungen Deutscher Patentanwälte" Heft 4/5, S. 164 - 173 und S. 173 - 180." | holger |
| accreditation at EPC conference | At the diplomatic conference of 2000-11-20..29 NGOs can participate. | phm? | Conference for the Revision of the European Patent Convention |
| BMBF | A webserver of the German Ministery of Education and Research contains patent inflationist propaganda and even a software patent brochure from the notorious patent department of Siemens. This probably does not represent the viewpoint of the minister. | xuan? | BMBF-Diskussion |
| archiving | deliver CDROM to the library | phm | done once, but not yet regularised. |
| Systems | Negotiation with Systems 2000 tradefair / LNM AG about participation in this major computer tradefair in November 2000 | arnim |
| Economic Study | look for economists who will write a report about the current economic literature on swpat | ark? |
| BGH petition | write an open letter to call on politicians to put pressure on the illegal practice of the German Federal High Court | phm | Der BGH geht zu weit |
| BGH article | document exactly how the BGH's patent inflation came about | phm | A first draft is there |
| patent reform proposals | the patent system is ailing not only in the software area. it is aiming only for quantity and power rather than for quality. although FFII may not be legitimised to speak out on all issues, we could perhaps bring about a coalition of various groups who do that. | phm | Suggestions for the Community Patent |
| questionnaire | program a nice informative questionnaire that we could get enterprises to fill in, giving us useful survey information and at the same time making them aware of the problems | holger+sfermigier? |
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