World Intellectual Property Organization

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations.

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• FSFE - has worked within WIPO to prevent software patents

External links

• http://www.wipo.int/ - their official website
• WIPO's page on "Software and Business Methods"

Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP)

• Standing Committee on the Law of Patents

SCP/13

SCP's 13th meeting ("SCP/13") took place from March 23rd to 27th 2009 in Geneva.

• FSFE re/ future work
• FSFE re/ patents and standardisation
• FSFE re/exceptions and limitations
• Explanatory post-SCP blog entry by Georg Greve
• SCP/12/3: report on the international patent system
• SCP/13/3: report on exclusions from patentable subject matter and exceptions and limitations to the rights