Software patents conference in Brussels
Frederic Couchet
fcouchet at april.org
Wed Sep 10 21:12:22 UTC 2003
SOFTWARE PATENTS : THE CHOICE IS YOURS
Wednesday 17 September 16.00 -18.30
European Parliament Brussels Room PHS 5B001
15.00 Press conference in briefing room
16:00 Introduction by Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP Chair of the Green/Efa
Group in EP
16:10 Presentation of the petition of the scientists:
Dr. Alan Mycroft, Cambridge*
http://www.math.chalmers.se/~bengt/petition.pdf
16:30 Presentation of the letter of the economists:
Dr. Luc Soete, Founder of Merit (Maastricht Economic
Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/technologie/0,39020809,39116150,00.htm
16:45 European consumer's point of view: Jim Murray, Director of
the BEUC
17:00 Tim Berners-Lee, Director World Wide Web Consortium, founder
of the www online statement, debate and chat (videoconference)*
17:30 Administration that switched to open source software (Germany)
Jens Mülhaus Member City Council city of Munich
17:45 CEO of European SMEs testimony about software patents :
Hakon Wium Lie, CEO of OPERA (web browser Opera, used on all
platforms, also used on cell-phones and PDAs for eg. Motorola)
www.opera.com
18:00 Debate
18:30 Conclusion
http://www.greens-efa.org
Translation is available in all official EU languages
Participation is free however it is necessary to register by Monday
17.09.03 by email with lvandewalle at europarl.eu.int in order to get an
access badge to EP
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