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#title: Janelly Fourtou MEP and Software Patents

#descr: Janelly Fourtou, member of the European Parliament, French Conservative, has actively promoted software and business method patents in Europe, while pretending that she was %(q:only restating the current law).  Fourtou in particular used every opportunity to push for legalisation of program claims (e.g. %(q:a program, characterised by that upon loading into memory some computing process is executed)), which the European Commission had suggested not to allow.  Jean-René Fourtou, husband of Janelly, former top manager of Aventis (pharma), is currently the CEO of Vivendi Universal.  Vivendi is involved in cooperation negotiations with Microsoft.  In 2002/12 J-R became the head of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), an organisation with a very active patent arm (IP Commission) which is lobbying for expansion of the patent system worldwide.  In 2003, Fourtou became the rapporteur of a new IP enforcement directive, which, if enacted according to Fourtou's proposal, may allow the Fourtou family to earn many thousands of EUR by suing people, either on the grounds of patents or copyright.  This directive proposal is once again based on documents from BSA and once again claims to be %(q:only harmonising the status quo).  Fourtou finds the proposed measures still not draconian enough.

#dfW: Mr Fourtou a été nommé en décembre 2002 président de la chambre internationale du commerce (ICC - International Chamber of Commerce).  Cette organisation pousse très fort pour le système des brevets et nie catégoriquement toute relation entre la difficulté pour les pays africains à accéder aux médicaments et les brevets protégeants ces médicaments.

#BWo: USCIB: Fourtou Chairman of ICC

#seu: Jean-René Fourtou of Vivendi Universal elected ICC Chairman.  ... As WTO officials meet to discuss drug patents and health crises in poor countries, ICC says inadequate financing and poor infrastructure, not the patent system, are the main culprit.

#Pme: IFPI/McCarthy/Fourtou campaign for IP Enforcement successful

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