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A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on Life
Farmers and indigenous peoples are outraged that plants that they developed are being 'hijacked' by companies. Groups as diverse as religious leaders, parliamentarians and environment NGOs are intensifying their campaign against corporate patenting of living things.
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pat-ch.htm
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Adobe Testimony
Transcript of the testimony by Douglas Brotz, an Adobe Principal Scientist, wherein Adobe officially establishes its opposition to software patents.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/adobe.testimony.html
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Against Patenting Lifeforms
A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies
http://www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1995_11/msg00067.html
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Autodesk Statement
Autodesk, the makers of a very popular animation program, have issued this statement against software patents.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/autodesk.html
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Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
The biggest software organization in the world calls for a boycott of Amazon for its predatory, monopolistic attempts to control basic web ideas.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html
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European Anti-Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive
Promotes the idea of bribes to fight software patents.
http://mjr.iki.fi/texts/patentfund
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Internet Patent News
Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
http://www.bustpatents.com/
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Mitch Kapor's Congressional Testimony
Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus. This is his testimony to Congress OPPOSING software patents, saying they are harmful.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/kapor.html
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Negative Correlation of Innovation and Software Patents
This is part of the League for Programming Freedom's submission to the Patent Office, January 25, 1994. It shows evidence that patents hurt even the companies which get them.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/scoreboard.html
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NoSoftwarePatents.com
Campaign website against software patents in the EU. (Different languages)
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com
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Oracle Corporation - Patent Policy
This is a press release by Oracle, the database giant, AGAINST the copyrighting of software.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/oracle.html
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Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
A short petition text which was signed by more than 50000 people in Europe during the first few months of its existence and which rallied support statements from 200 IT companies and 1000 programmers
http://petition.eurolinux.org
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Slashdot - Patents
Featuring patent news, links and discussion.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=155
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The Non-Patent Side of Software Patents
Slideshow presentation exploring the implications of and criticizing software patents.
http://gibuskro.lautre.net/patents/
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Vienna University - Intellectual Property Rights for the Rich and the Poor?
Summarizes and discusses the impact of the introduction of IPRs protection on developing and least developed countries in accordance with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement.
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h99a/h9950236/iprs/index.htm
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