An Industry at Risk by the League for Programming Freedom. Though it is apparently supporting software patents, the European Commission is now showing interest in open source and Linux. Articles sur les brevets logiciels de Francois Pellegrini. Egalement disponibles l'ABUL . Patents - Commission approves Green Paper with the full document in pdf .
Commission outlines ambitious series of measures with the full document in pdf .
Proposition modifi e de directive pour la protection des inventions par le mod le d'utilit avec le document complet en pdf . Amended proposal for a Directive on the protection of inventions by utility model with the full document in pdf . Consultation by UK Patent Office. Consultation Document of 01.11.2000 UK seeks to clarify law on software patents Jean Eaglesham, Financial Times, Mar 13, 2001. In the US patent system, if the PTO looked at certain prior art and decided to issue the patent anyway, the court is supposed to presume the PTO was right to regard that prior art as insufficient.