From 1999 to 2005, this site has been a source of knowledge about software patents in Europe. It has helped thousands of citizens to equip themselves with the knowledge needed to prevail in a difficult legislative debate.

In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitely seeking to sanction the patentabilitty of software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators.

Even before 2005, the focus of the site has been shifting more and more from software patents to European patent lawmaking and patent governance. That is why the site was renamed from swpat.ffii.org to eupat.ffii.org.

Sections de ce site

• Section en style nouveaux
  • Current events of 2007 and 2006
  • The EUPAT Workgroup and its plans
• Sections en style vieux ::
  • papers: Collection of papers from the European patentability debate
  • analysis: various analytical papers, including new documentation about the EPLA debate of 2006 in the European Parliament
  • patents: example patents
  • players: pages dedicated to players in the European software patent debate
  • journal: log of events and press releases
  • archive: collection of excerpts from documents that can or at times could be found on the web

This site can be edited by all members of the eupat workgroup.

Sites Liés

• FFII France
  • Actualité Brevet Logiciel
• http://www.ethipat.org: Appel à l’UE pour créer un nouveaux système de brevet européen
• Hartmut Pilch