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James Heald writes:
Ian Clarke wrote:
I'm not sure about patents4innovation, but I suspect it is similar.
P4I was set up by EICTA. Sun and Cisco have already taken their names off the site, as have some national ICT associations.
The first draft of the site was largely written by Nokia's lead IP lobbyist.
... with the help of some license infringement: http://kwiki.ffii.org/Eicta041202En .
Jokes about them being pro-patent because they can't comprehend the terms of copyright-based licenses are welcome ;)
- --j.
The pro-swpat push in Brussels has been almost entirely led (in descending order of activity) by Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, Philips and Alcatel, either in their own name, or working though these 'umbrella' front organisations.
Ian.
On 3 Feb 2005, at 10:06, Ryan Meade wrote:
Apologies if you're already aware of these:
http://www.patents4innovation.org/ http://campaignforcreativity.org/camp4creativity/index.htm
Pretty funny, if they weren't a bit scary. The Irish partners of the Patents4Innovation campaign are listed as "ICT Ireland", which is an IBEC subgroup: http://www.ictireland.ie/
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