[Facil] Red Hat contre les brevets logiciels

Marc Lavallée marc at hacklava.net
Mar 7 Juin 21:46:34 EDT 2005


Le 7 Juin 2005 21:22, Marc Lavallée a écrit :
> Il existe un organisme "casseur de brevet" (auquel participe le conseiller
> juridique de la FSF): http://www.pubpat.org/

Parlant de PubPat, je viens tout juste de recevoir ceci, à propos d'une 
probable réforme de la loi états-unienne sur les brevets:

De : 
Public Patent Foundation <info at pubpat.org>
À : 
PUBPAT News List <news at pubpat.org>
Date : 
Aujourd'hui 21:37:48

U.S. CONGRESS INVITES PUBPAT EXECUTIVE TO TESTIFY ABOUT PATENT REFORM

NEW YORK -- The Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT") announced today that 
Executive Director, Dan Ravicher, has been invited by the U.S. House of 
Representatives to testify at this week's hearing on a proposed bill to 
reform the patent system.  Ravicher will make a presentation and then 
answer questions from Representatives on the Subcommittee on Courts, the 
Internet, and Intellectual Property, including Chairman Lamar Smith 
(R-TX) and Ranking Member Howard Berman (D-CA).

"The interests of the non-patent holding public are almost always absent 
from any meaningful participation in decision making about the patent 
system, despite the fact that they bear the brunt of its burdens," 
Ravicher stated in written testimony submitted prior to the hearing. 
"Patent policy should be made with consideration of all of the public's 
interests, not just the specific interests of the PTO, patent holders, 
patent practitioners, and large commercial actors."

Patent reform has been a topic of extensive discussion in Washington 
recently, with the House and Senate having several hearings on the 
subject.  A widely circulated proposed patent reform bill includes 
provisions reigning in undeserved injunctions, limiting the ability of 
patent applicants to file unlimited numbers of continuation 
applications, and creating a post-grant opposition procedure allowing 
the public to more efficiently verify the validity of issued patents. 
In his written testimony, Ravicher commented on each of these provisions 
and also raised several other areas in need of reform not addressed in 
the proposed bill.

More information about PUBPAT's testimony to Congress on patent reform, 
including a complete copy of Ravicher's written statement, can be found 
at http://www.pubpat.org/Educating_and_Advocating.htm.

Contact:

Jill Ratkevic, Bite Communications: (415) 365-0482;
Jill.Ratkevic at bitepr.com.

About PUBPAT:

The Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT") is a not-for-profit legal
services organization working to protect the public from the harms
caused by the patent system, particularly the harms caused by wrongly
issued patents and unsound patent policy.  PUBPAT provides the general
public and those specific persons or businesses otherwise deprived of
access to the system governing patents, with representation, advocacy,
and education.  To be kept informed of PUBPAT News, subscribe to the
PUBPAT News List by sending an email with "subscribe" in the subject
line to news-request at pubpat.org.  To be removed from the PUBPAT News
List, send an email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line to
news-request at pubpat.org.

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Marc




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