Call to Action

Why do patents kill software?

  1. Software patents don't work. No economic study supports an application of the patent system on software.
  2. Software is a quick business. Patents grant a right to exclude competition for 20 years, examination takes 4-5 years.
  3. Patents were made for the industrial age, not for a service based economy. No wonder, the patent system is expensive, slow and clumpsy.
  4. Patents reward 'hot air' in software. General conceptions are not scary and the most trivial aspect of software development.
  5. Patents don't disclose anything useful. Developers who read software patents find these letters are an insult on persons skilled in the art.
  6. Patent attorneys can write patents with no skills whatsoever in software development. Developers don't write patents.
  7. Patents create fear. Software patents mean legal ambushes for creators and undermine our ownership over copyrighted works
  8. Patents mess up the market, undermine open standards and create more litigation.

In return for hot air the patent office grants the applicant a right to harass and ruin businesses who do create software.

We are fed up with this. We want to kill Software Patents.

How can our government kill software patents?

  • ban them with substantive clarifications e.g to the European Patent Convention
  • get a new software patent directive to ban enforcement of software patents in the EU
  • get Patent Offices under control of the Parliament as to let it abide to the law
  • get rid of 'technical judges' without legal competence and their "case law"
  • get unbiased persons with an economic background in charge of patent system governance

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Key issues - global

  • Software patents are an untenable political construction based on bogus protectionist economic theory.
  • Software patents kill open standards, essential for a healthy digital economy.
  • Software patents kill collaborative innovation, an essential motor of our digital economy.
  • Software patents create litigation more than any other kind of patent.

Key issues - Europe

  • Software patents are a product of the European Patent Office, a non-EU body.
  • Software patents are particularly bad for Europe's 85% SME-based economy.

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