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[News] Power Shift Welcomes Possible Software Patent Lobbyist in EU

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EICTA has a new surprise President

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| EICTA, the industry body representing the information and communications 
| technology and consumer electronics industries in the European Union 
| announces that Erkki Ormala has been elected as President and Chairman of the 
| Executive Board. Dr. Ormala is Vice President, Technology and Trade Policy of 
| Nokia Corporation where his responsibilities cover political, regulatory, 
| economic, market access and other business environment related issues. The 
| main Eicta policy issues are in his area of responsibility at Nokia. He takes 
| over from Rudy Provoost, who led the organization for the past four years.       
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-64692/eicta-has-a-new-surprise-president


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[ffii] McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty

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| Brussels, 13 May 2008 -- European Commissioner McCreevy is pushing for a
| bilateral patent treaty with the United States. This Tuesday 13 May in
| Brussels, White House and European representatives will try to adopt a
| tight roadmap for the signature of a EU-US patent treaty by the end of
| the year. Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on
| software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic.
|
| "TEC talks are the current push for software patents. The US want to
| eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The
| bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the
| Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look
| who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single
| European SME in there", says Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent
| policy specialist.
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| The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) which comprises EU and US high
| level representatives put a substantive harmonisation of patent law on
| its agenda. Substantive patent law covers what is patentable or not. The
| attempt to impose the low US standards on Europe via the Substantive
| Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) process utterly failed at the World
| Intellectual Property Organisation. Also progress in the WIPO B+
| subgroup (without development nations) could not be reached.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/282000/
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