An executive summary of the position of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Opthalmic Administrators against patents for surgical and medical procedures. http://www.ascrs.org/advocacy/execsum.html
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
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 liv http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pat-ch.htm
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
Tabular listings and statistics of monopolies on programming problems, granted by the European Patent Office against the letter and spirit of the existing laws. http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta
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
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
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) features legal information, news and selected online resources against software patentability. http://www.ffii.org.uk/swpat.html
