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EICTA is an IT lobbying group founded in 1999.
News & Chronology
2005-07-05 EICTA sends a letter to UK Presidency and Tony Blair
2004-12-04 EICTA's Patent4Innovation breaches copyright of OpenMagazine
Summary
EICTA work on swpat is led by Leo Baumann, a former assistant of Angelika Niebler MEP, he leads a one person task force.
Eicta lately launched a software patent propaganda website: Patents4Innovation
This site is accompanied by a similar hired-gun outfit Campaign for Creativity
- The campaign claims to have support from various national IT associations also in the new member states (e.g. infobalt, see "about us", Leo Baumann gave pro-patent speeches in the Baltics recently)
- some national sections of EICTA have pronounced themselves against software patents.
Nokia Patent Radical Tim Frain about us
- Well-orchestrated, pro-active opposition from parts of Open Source Software (OSS) community:
- Ideological, anti-globalisation platform
- Often using misleading arguments
- Mostly non-users of patents
- Based on fear of patents (patent thicket)
- Perception is they speak for all SMEs*, inc. spin-outs
- Sympathetic MEPs, especially socialists in some Member States, and the Greens generally
Strategy Outline
Ulf Pehrsson (Eicta vice President, Ericsson) at Infobalt04 about Eicta objectives (Powerpoint presentation)
persons
Mark McGann, director general