== Take a look at our links page too: ==

The links page in Dutch: [[LinksSwpatNl]] has many links to English language documents as well. 

== English (or translated) Vrijschrift texts ==

[[http://www.vrijschrift.nl/Members/awessels/vrijschrift.nl_change-the-vote-howto.pdf|Council Vote Reversal Howto]] 
Possibilities to change a political agreement vote.

[[http://www.vrijschrift.nl/Members/awessels/no-software-minefield.pdf|No pure software patents]]
 
[[http://www.vrijschrift.nl/Members/awessels/no-software-minefield.swx|same, as Open Office file]]

[[http://www.vrijschrift.nl/Members/awessels/Vrijschrift.nl_COSAC20041216|Letter to COSAC, december 16th 2004]] The EU Presidency denies the new members the rights the Protocol on the Role of National Parliaments in the European Union grants them, the CII Directive Common Position will be illegal.

[[http://www.vrijschrift.nl/Members/awessels/vrijschrift.nl_cosac040905.pdf|Letter to COSAC, september 5th 2004]] 

[[http://www.vrijschrift.nl/Members/awessels/digital-era-paradise-law.pdf|The Digital Era needs a Paradise Law]] In 1256, Bologna adopted the Paradise Law, it abolished slavery. It was the first city in the world to do this. The world needs another Paradise Law now, software patents need to be abolished. And there is no better place to talk about this, than Bologna. Ante Wessels' Bologna speech.

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/LetterBrinkhorst040819En|Letter to Minister Brinkhorst]]

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/?NlGovLttrResp0422En|Freedom to innovate, june 22th, our rebuttal of the State Secretary's letter, june 16th]]

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/index.cgi?NlParlDebate0426En|Debat july 1th]]

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/NlParlDebate0426En|Debate june 24th]]


== Non Vrijschrift texts ==

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/?NlMot040701En|Motion Van Dam, july 1th]]

[[http://www.ffii.be/pwc|Study by PricewaterhouseCoopers]] with critical remarks on softwarepatents

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/?NlGovLttr0406En|A letter from the State Secretary, june 16th]]

"Answers to Parliamentary Questions, september 13th 2004":KamervrAnt040913EN

[[http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cms_data/docs/2004/6/21/Councils%20rules%20of%20procedure.pdf|Council's rules of procedure]]

[[http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/treaties/dat/treaties_en.pdf|Treaties EN]]
page 375: Protocol on the role of the national parliaments in the EU.

[[http://fajardolopez.com/informes/Fajardolopez.com_18th-May-EU-Council-voting.pdf|Lopez report]] and as OO doc: [[http://fajardolopez.com/informes/Fajardolopez.com_18thMay-EUCouncil-voting.sxw|Lopez OO doc]] A political agreement is non-binding.


== More links ==


== Intro ==

[[http://webshop.ffii.org|Webshop]] 

[[http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/ceapme0309/index.en.html|2 million SMEs against software patents]]

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/index.cgi?ShortIntroEn|Short intro]]

[[http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?LANG=en|Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe - Eurolinux petitie]]

[[http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/demands/|Call for Action II]]
 
[[http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/it-parl|FFII it-parl mailing list]] join the Italian lobby

[[http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/bxl|FFII Brussels mailing list]] Join the Brussels' lobby (European Parliament)

[[http://swpat.ffii.org/group/todo/|FFII to do en mailing lists]]


== Studies ==


[[http://www.researchoninnovation.org/online.htm#sw.|James Bessen and Robert M. Hunt. An Empirical Look At Software Patents. March 2004]] Als pdf: [[http://www.researchoninnovation.org/softpat.pdf|PDF]]

To Promote innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy. Technical report, [[http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf.|Federal Trade Commission, October 2003]]

National Research Council. [[http://books.nap.edu/html/digital%5Fdilemma/.|The Digital Dillemma: Intellectual Property in the In-formation age. 2000]]

Deutsche Bank: Innovation in Germany - Windows of opportunity
[[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000175949.pdf|Softwarepatenten zijn slecht voor de innovatie, oproep aan de Duitse regering zich er tegen te keren.]]

Overview studies:
[[http://www.elis.ugent.be/~jmaebe/swpat/studies/studies_en.pdf|Studies EN]]

[[http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/mirror/impact/index.en.html|Studies EN more]]

[[http://gauss.bacon.su.se/sql/|Patent watch]] 

[[http://gauss.bacon.su.se/sql/list.php?db=EPGCI|Inventor country]] Granted EP patents indexed by inventor country of residence. F.I. Italian inventors: less than 1.5 % of the inventions. [[http://www.vrijschrift.nl/Members/awessels/gauss-inventor-print.pdf|Print version]]


[[http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/|Europe's strong position in Open Source software]]



== Europe ==

[[http://www.ffii.se/clipart/Eurim2.png|Co-decision:]] 

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/index.cgi?CodecisionPosterEn.|See also]]

[[http://plone.ffii.org/Members/mvernon/documents|flowchart poster of the codecsion process]]

It's available in german and english, pdf or sxd. 
The original format is A0 (84x118cm) but you can easily reformat it,
using openoffice and the sxd file.

[[http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Cons040708En|Agenda EU]]



== Analysis ==

[[http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/cons0401/|Engelstalige analyse]]


== Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs ==

[[http://www.ffii.be/pwc|Rapport van PriceWaterhouseCoopers]] with critical remarks on softwarepatents


[[http://www.softwarepatenten.be/iht|International Herald Tribune]]


== Still more ==

[[http://www.ovum.co.uk/go/content/c,50373|Patent Apocalypse]] "If every patent were 'exercised' it is hard to see how anyone would be able to write or sell any software at all" And: "We ardently hope that the US Patent Office hasn't fallen foul of one of the very patents that it, itself, has registered."

[[http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64038,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6|Wired: 10 patents]]

[[http://www.hiit.fi/de/core/PatentsInEurope.pdf|A nice illustration of how the practice of the EPO evolved over the years, and how the directive fits in.]]

[[http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/shield/index.en.html|Shield]]

[[http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/businessmethods/epoexamples/|Business Methods]]

[[http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/cost/index.en.html|Insurance against swpats]]

[[http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/bbc.pdf|BBC]]

[[http://greens-efa.org/pdf/documents/SoftwarePatenting/TextGosh.pdf|Swpat doc Greens]]