IP Sceptical Pirate Party on the Rise in Germany
Visae Patentes | 30. April 2012 — The German Pirate Party (“Piratenpartei”) is well known amongst IP professionals for their sceptic stance on the current state of…
In a new article titled "How (Not) To Get Rid Of Software Patents" on the ksnh::law blog, Axel Horns reports on the success of the German Priate Party on yesterday's general elections for the Berlin regional parliament, where teh party could, for the first time in Germany, surpass the 5% quorum. Even though the German Chapter is sceptical about current Copyright and Patent law, the Piratenpartei appear not aim abolishment of patents in general but "only" demands to ban patents on software, genes, biological organisms and business methods. However,the pirates re…
» Vollständiger ArtikelErschienen 19. September 2011 auf http://www.visaepatentes.com.
Visae Patentes | 30. April 2012 — The German Pirate Party (“Piratenpartei”) is well known amongst IP professionals for their sceptic stance on the current state of…
Immateriblog.de | 20. Juni 2009 — Member of German parliament Jörg Tauss today joined the German Pirate Party. Tauss had announced yesterday (in German) tha…
Visae Patentes | 30. April 2012 — This month (April 2012) our ksnh::law blog has reported on basically three very different topics that, at the first glance, do n…
Visae Patentes | 16. April 2010 — Software patents banned: As reported here and elsewhere, the parilament of New Zealand voted for a major patent reform bill that …
Visae Patentes | 23. Juli 2011 — In a new article titled "German Federal Court of Justice Confirms New German Approach To Software Patent Examination (BGH X ZR 12…
German American Law Journal :: American Edition | 4. Januar 2010 — CK - Washington. Instead of a potentially biased, too friendly review, here is the index of my book chapter as recently publishe…
IPJUR.COM | 6. September 2010 — In an earlier posting I had reported that, on the first day of the Belgian EU Presidency, the EU Commission had published a P…
IPJUR.COM | 14. April 2011 — Recently, the European Commission has published Document COM(2011) 215/3 titled Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLI…
Visae Patentes | 23. August 2011 — In a new article titled "Software Patent Litigation: Stress Testing the Patent System" on the ksnh::law blog, my colleague Axel Ho…
German American Law Journal :: American Edition | 4. November 2008 — AK - Washington. German federal elections -- the next one will be held in October 2009 -- differ substantially from their Americ…
Irreverent campaign that initially focused on filesharing, data protection and censorship draws 8.5% of vote, exit polls indicate