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]