[DMCA-Activists] Re: [Patents] Ralph Nader Busts Software Patents

[PILCH Hartmut]

> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/view.html?pg=3

The most interesting part of this is CPTech's research about the US Trade
Representative's involvement in spreading US patent doctrines across the
world.  Much of this is evangelism is made in public on the USTR website.

You can now find a summary of these phenomena, specially in view of the EU
software patentability directive project, at

        http://swpat.ffii.org/players/us/

Note also the update of

        http://swpat.ffii.org/players/amccarthy/

with a lot of hints to what may be propelling Arlene McCarthy's crusade
for software patents in Europe.

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