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The goal of swpat.org is to catalog and organise information about software patents from around the world to provide a base for campaigns against software patents. This wiki can be edited by you.
Any questions/suggestions? Raise them on the Discuss this wiki page. swpat.org is hosted by End Software Patents, but it can be used by anyone and any organisation.
About swpat.org
- Our goals
- Why focus only on software
- Links to be processed
- Ideas for info to gather
- Please help find these documents
- Discuss this wiki
- There's a sandbox page for test edits
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You can also start by looking at Category:Top level category. Every page on en.swpat.org should be in at least one of the categories or subcategories.
Harm to users
Harm to businesses
- Software patents harm SMEs
- Preventing competition
- Monopolies
- Patent trolls, or "parasites"
- Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work
- Used for sabotage rather than competition sometimes called "business weapons"
Administrative problems
Papers, studies, books
- Books about software and patents
- Studies on economics and innovation
- The EuroLinux petition
- Studies by concerned parties:
Do our proposals exclude this from patentability?
Federal/National patent jurisdictions
- Argentina (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- Australia (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- Belgium (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- Brazil (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- England and Wales (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- France (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- Germany (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- India (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- Ireland (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- Switzerland (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- USA (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- Venezuela (Legislation, Case law, Patent office practice)
- Malaysia
Other regions
Dispelling myths
Minor ways to also fight software patents (see also: Risks of supporting partial solutions)
Specific patents and infringement suits
Navigating the patent system
Statements
Other
- Minor intermediary goals
- Legal wordings
- Patent promises
- Defensive patenting
- List of recordings and transcripts
- Related Wikipedia articles
- Free software
- Analogies
- Which sectors are for and against
- Timeline
- Patents possibly violated by swpats.org
- People
- Why software is different
- Should the whole patent system be axed?
- Technical solutions, not technical problems
- Sources of software patent news
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