Extract -
"Europe requires strong industrial property rights to protect its innovations and remain competitive in the global knowledge-based economy," said the Communication adopted by the Commission. "In the EU, protection at Community level exists for most of the registered industrial property rights. However, pending an agreement on the Community patent, businesses do not have this possibility in patents … the Commission considers that progress in this matter is vital and reaffirms its intention to seek agreement as a question of priority on these proposals."
"Having now established momentum towards finding solutions on patents, this Communication turns towards developing a horizontal and integrated strategy across the spectrum of industrial property rights," it said.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/30/ec_industrial_rights_proposal/
Hello everyone,
Please read below notes and ideas, which pretty much will be the
agenda for Sunday's IRC meeting.
Join us for the meeting in #ubuntu-ie channel on irc.freenode.net
server this Sunday at 9pm.
Kind regards,
Mean-Machine
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Laura Czajkowski <laura(a)lczajkowski.com> wrote:
> so not sure I'll make the meeting, but I did chat to Mean-Machine last night
> and PotD and came up with some ideas, I've written them down and sending
> here in case folks want to add to the discussion:
>
>
> 1) 3/4 possible talks
> * FSo 2 talks 30 mins each
> * Ubuntu - Ompaul
> * Mean Machine
> * Guest Speaker?
> * Possible Anderoid Talk from google
>
> 2) UK Ubuntu Might be able to do a Podcast
>
> 3) Lightening Talks Set aside 40 mins and allow people who turn up to stand
> up and give a talk for about 4 mins?
>
> 4) Camara Presentation - tours running throughtout the day, showing the
> workshop and explaining what they do
>
> 5) Harcesz has volunteered to video record the event
>
>
> What needs to be done
> =====================
>
> Sponsorship - who can we talk to? Sugar CRM/ Open App anyone else?
> - Digital Hub
>
> Refreshments - Maybe a sponsor might sponsor some soft drinks?
> - talk to McGruders as they are next Door they may help
>
> Promoting the Event
>
> - We've already had one article in Silicone republic - we shall aim for a
> follow up once it has been finalised
>
> - Update the Ubuntu Blog and users will be encourage to blog/twitter/use all
> resources to promote the event.
>
> - Mean-Machine to see about Button - " I am attending SFD 08" to be added to
> peoples blogs.
>
> - Talk to the college comp socs and see if they will come along and also
> promte it via their mailing lists.
>
> Mailing Lists to target
> ILUG
> PHP
> Python
> Ruby
> Open Street Map Project
>
> Again this was just written down roughly, if you have any other ideas, reply
> :)
>
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IFSO Meeting: Tuesday 15th July, 20h00, White Horse Inn
Hi all.
This month's IFSO meeting is at 20h00 on Tuesday 15th (tomorrow) in the
White Horse Inn:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.34678&lon=-6.25653&zoom=17&layers=B0F
Topics under discussion will include the future schedule of IFSO
meetings, the recent IMCO and ITRE vote, this years Software Freedom
Day, and more.
See you there,
Glenn
Concerning the amendments to telecommunications legislation, I wrote to Eoin
Ryan to express my worries and show him the opinions of Glyn Moody, from
http://www.computerworlduk.com/COMMUNITY/BLOGS/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=…
.
I'm not sure in how far this is relevant as the above article clams the vote
was yesterday, I have asked Eoin Ryan's permission to show you his response.
I was hoping that someone more knowledgeable that I, from the fsfe-ie would
be kind enough to respond to Mr. Ryan's reply.
Dear Mr Kersten,
>
> Thank you for your email regarding your concerns with the Telecoms
> package. This report is currently being debated and voted upon at the
> Committee stage. I am not a member of the Internal Market and Consumer
> Protection Committee (IMCO) or the Industry, Research and Energy
> Committee (ITRE), which are the Committees currently dealing with the
> Report, however I forwarded your email to the Group Advisor who will
> take your concerns under consideration for my colleagues who are on
> these committees. Once the report is voted upon and finalised at the
> Committee level it will be debated and voted upon in the Plenary
> session. This will most likely be during one of the autumn sessions.
>
> I have received a considerable number of emails regarding the amendments
> to the Telecoms Package, file sharing and Intellectual Property Rights
> and interest in this Package is very high. If there is an umbrella
> organisation or spokesperson who you are aware of that I could meet to
> discuss this issue with I would be delighted to do so. As I would like
> to be fully briefed before the Plenary debate and vote I also welcome an
> information on this issue that you would like me to be aware of. I look
> forward to hearing from you.
>
> If you have any further comments or questions please do not hesitate to
> contact me.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Eoin Ryan MEP
>
> Committee on Economic & Monetary Affairs
>
> Committee on Development
>
>
> European Parliament, - Tel (+32) 02 284 5612, Fax (+32) 02 284 9612
>
> 43 Molesworth St., Dublin 2 - Tel (+353)1 662 3042, Fax (+353) 662344
Regards,
Tim Kersten
Dear all,
I'd like to let you know that the Irish Ubuntu Community together
with Camara, are organising the Software Freedom Day event on the 20th
of September.
Location:
Camara Dublin
The Digital Hub
10-13 Thomas Street
Dublin 8
We're still in the early phase of planning a whole day event and looking
for sponsors and people to give talks on Free Software in general and
related subjects.
We've already registered on the SFD page
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/ireland/ubuntu-ie
We have our website up and running: ubuntu-ie.org
Ideas for SFD 2008 wiki page: wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/SFD2008
Ubuntu-ie also has an office space at camara:
http://camara.ie/blog/index.php
Any help/publicity etc. is very much appreciated.
Looking forward to hearing from you and meeting you next Wednesday.
Kind regards,
Maciek
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>From Glyn Moody's blog:
"Urgent: Please write to your MEP – Now! There is a very important EU vote taking place on July 7th on some amendments to telecommunications legislation that threaten to sneak in a number of catastrophic measures"
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=…
Brian
In this mostly-quiet period, I've been thinking about what harmed/harms our
software patent lobbying, and I'm wondering if it's our complete reliance on
the term "software patents".
We've invested a lot of energy in that term, so it should be kept, but it's
practically impossible to have a meaningful conversation with the European
Commission or EPO about "software patents". They just use their own
ludicrous definition and tell everyone that they agree with us and that
current and proposed legislation doesn't support "software patents"
etc. etc.
Then they say that they do support Computer Implemented Inventions, and they
define that in a broad way that encompassing all inventions that make use of
a computer - and we're left unable to say that CIIs are bad.
...but it doesn't have to be this way. Terms could be avoided altogether by
just mentioning "problematic patents in the software field" and then giving
a one-sentence explanation like "such as patents on how to display, store,
or communicate data".
So what I'd like to ask is, do people think this would help, and can anyone
suggest better wordings? Does that one-sentence explanation pretty much
cover what we care about (without covering something we don't have a
position on)?
(Keeping in mind that the more precise it gets, the more excuse the EC/EPO
person has of using a "I don't know the exact technical details of this"
response.)
Meanwhile, things are happening in India. Their patent office has published
a draft for a new manual, which can be viewed along with comments from the
likes of Microsoft and Redhat here:
http://www.ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/manual.htm
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