- Legislation:
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the
Council on the patentability of computer-implemented
inventions, COM(2002) 92 final (Brussels, 20.02.2002),
2002/0047 (COD),
see also: Press Release, ‘Patents:
Commission proposes rules for inventions using software’;
FAQ:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/02-32.htm
- Website of the European
Commission, DG Internal Market, Industrial Property:
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/index.htm
-
Article:
John R. Thomas,
 ‘Patent
Rights and Personal Liberties’.
-
Presentation:
John R. Thomas,
 ‘The
Expanding Scope of Patent Law: The U.S. Experience’.
-
Summary of dissertation (in German):
Ralph Nack:
‘The
Patentable Invention under Changing Conditions of Science and
Technology’.
- Study: Robert Hart,
Peter Holmes & John Reid, ‘The
Economic Impact of Patentability of Computer Programs’,
report to the European Commission on behalf of Intellectual
Property Institute, London.
- Study: Reinier
Bakels & Bernt Hugenholtz, ‘The
patentability of computer programs - Discussion of
European-level legislation in the field of patents for
software’, study commissioned by the European Parliament.
- Study: Executive
Summary in English of Knut Blind, Jakob Edler, Ralph Nack
& Joseph Straus, ‘Micro-
and Macroeconomic Implications of the Patentability of
Software Innovations - Intellectuell Property Rights in
Information Technologies between Competition and Innovation’,
(Fraunhofer Institut / Max-Planck-Institute, Karlsruhe,
November 2001) (original study in German: ‘Mikro-
und makroökonomische Implikationen der Patentierbarkeit von
Softwareinnovationen - Geistige Eigentumsrechte in der
Informationstechnologie im Spannungsfeld von Wettbewerb und
Innovation’.
- Recommendation: P.
van Schelven, J. Helberg, M. van der Boom & L. van Dijk
(VOSN),
‘Criteria
voor de octrooirechtelijke bescherming van
computerprogrammatuur’, provisional translation in
english: ‘Criteria
for patent protection of software programs’,
Dutch
IT Federation (FENIT) /
Dutch
Open Source Society (VOSN).
- Website of
FFII (Förderverein für eine Freie Informationelle
Infrastruktur e.V. / Foundation for a Free Information
Infrastructure) on software patents:
Protecting
Information Innovation against the Abuse of the Patent System;
webpage about this Columbanus Symposium
http://swpat.ffii.org/conferences/2002/amsterdam08/.
- Hearings of Federal
Trade Commission / U.S. Department of Justice: ‘Competition
and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the
Knowledge-Based Economy’.
- Caselaw: United
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Docket No.
96-1327,
State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group,
Inc., 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. Jul. 23, 1998).
- Decisions of EPO
(see
http://cip.umd.edu/softpatlinks.htm):
- Conference: Institut
Français des Relations Internationales / University of
Maryland, Center for Information Policy, College of
Information Studies: ‘Frontiers
of Ownership in the Digital Economy - Information Patents,
Database Protection and the Politics of Knowledge’,
conference and workshop, 10-11 June 2002, IFRI, Paris.
- Conference Paper: Brian Kahin, ‘Policy Development
for Information Patents in the United States and Europe’,
http://cip.umd.edu/kahinifri.doc (still June 3 draft).
- Paper: Brian Kahin,
‘The Expansion of the Patent System: Politics and Political
Economy’, First Monday, January 2001, Vol. 6, No. 1,
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_1/kahin/index.html.
- Study: PbT
Consultants, The Results Of The European Commission
Consultation Exercise On The Patentability Of Computer
Implemented Inventions, July 2001,
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/softanalyse.pdf.
- Study: French
interdepartmental working group, Rapport du groupe de
travail interministériel "Quelles protections pour les
logiciels?" (Report of the interdepartmental working group
"Which protections for computer programs"), July 2001,
http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/observat/innov/carrefour/rapgrtravail.pdf.
There is no English translation to our knowledge.
- Study: Knut Blind,
Jakob Edler, Ralph Nack & Joseph Straus, Mikro- und
macroökonomische Implikationen der Patentierbarkeit von
Softwareinnovationen: Geistige Eigentumsrechte in der
Informationstechnologie im Spannungsfeld von Wettbewerb und
Innovation, November 2001,
http://www.bmwi.de/Homepage/download/technologie/Softwarepatentstudie.pdf;
This document includes a summary in English (which is also
separately available from the Internet): Micro- and
Macroeconomic Implications of the Patentability of Software
Innovations. Intellectual Property Rights in Information
Technologies between Competition and Innovation, November
2001,
http://www.bmwi.de/HomePage/download/technologie/Softwarepatentstudie_E.pdf
- Study: Bernd
Lutterbeck, Robert Gehring, Axel H. Horns, Sicherheit in
der Informationstechnologie und Patentschutz für
Software-Produkte - Ein Widerspruch?, report commisioned
by the German federal Ministry of Economics and Technology,
December 2000,
http://www.sicherheit-im-internet.de/download/BMWi_Gutachten_englisch.pdf;
Security in Information Technology and Patent Protection
for Software Products, a Contradiction? Unofficial
transation by the German federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology,
http://www.sicherheit-im-internet.de/download/BMWi_Gutachten_englisch.pdf.
- Study: Dutch
Ministry of Economic Affairs, De juridische en economische
aspecten van het software-octrooi (Legal and economic
aspects of the software patent), December 2001,
http://www.minez.nl/publicaties/pdfs/01I21.pdf. There is
no English translation.
- Study: D.W.F.
Verkade, D.J.G. Visser & L.D. Bruining, Ruimere
octrooiëring van computerprogramma’s: technicality of
revolutie? (Broadened patenting of computer programs:
technicality or revolution?), ITeR series nr. 37, Den
Haag: Sdu Uitgevers 2000 [ISBN 90-540-9267-X]. An early
version is available on
http://www.nwo.nl/iter/ovc.pdf.
- Study: UK
Government, Should Patents be granted for Computer Software
or Ways of Doing Business? March 2001,
http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/conclusions.htm.
- Position paper:
Business
Software Alliance,
‘BSA
Comments on the European Commission’s proposed Directive on
the patentability of computer-implemented inventions’
(July 2002).
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