Jan Wildeboer is on stage now, I’m not going to blog a summary but just a link to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure of which he is a member. They have lots of information and links about software patents in the EU.
A really good talk! One of his conclusions is Dont’ let the Megacorps define the law. I couldn’t agree more.
I saw https://grep.codeconsult.ch/2005/07/22/jan-wildeboer-on-software-patents-in-the-eu/ and wanted to mention a useful site: http://www.FreePatentsOnline.com
It provides free patent searching, free PDF downloading, allows annoting documents and sharing them, and free alerts for new documents.
If you have a spot, a link to let your users know abou the site would be great.