Presented at
32C3 (2015),
Dec. 28, 2015, 2 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Ten years after the rejection of the European software patent directive by the European Parliament, the software patent problem still is not over.
Political action is required.
For further information, please refer to the attached document. It contains a one page summary of highlights, and five pages of a more detailed narrative. Finally, it includes the bio's of the three speakers.
Presenters:
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Benjamin Henrion / zoobab
as Benjamin Henrion (zoobab)
Benjamin is the President of the FFII.org, which has been fighting agisnt software patents since 1999. He has launched several popular campaigns on the internet, such as the August 2003 and June 2005 webdemonstrations against software patents, the PublicGeoData campaign for public maps, or the campaign against Microsoft's Office standardisation at ISO (OOXML). His interests lies in computer science, politics, and mountain biking.
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Iga Bałos
Iga Balos earned a Ph.D. degree in law in 2015 and her thesis concerned arbitration in patent disputes. She is an Assistant Professor at AFM Krakow University, where she teaches patent law, and of counsel in the patent law office in Krakow. She is one of only three authors from Poland who sent their amicus curiae to European Patent Office in famous G3/08 case concerning patentability of programs for computers.
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