Conference in Brussels November 2005: Controlling the European Patent System

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FFII is planning a two-day conference in the European Parliament for November 2005 about innovation and competition in the information society and various problems that need to be addressed at the legislative level.

Date, Place and Co-Organiser

• Proposed date is tue 22 -- wed 23 November 2005

  • We need more information about the European Parliament's calendar.

• erjos is looking for a partner within the EP

Subject matter

• state of patent granting and accountability of the EPO
• state of play concerning enforcement of EPO software patents in Europe
• state of the patent system in non-software fields: where is broad, slow and expensive IP beneficial today?
• new proposal on software patents by the Commission
• business models and access to capital for European software !SMEs
• innovation, information economy and how to reach the "Lisbon goals"
• Parliamentary democracy in the EU

  • 22 unanswered questions to the Council

  • patentability legislation by patent lawyers in a new EU court ?

  • legislation benchmarking and quality control

• directions of future reform

  • legislative initiatives based on the 21 cross-partisan amendments in Europe

  • Community Patent and privatisation of the patent examination system

  • toward an integrated system of cheap, fast and narrow intellectual property