[ Europe / Patent / Innovation]
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EU Patent system taken away from European Court of Justice
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Strasbourg, 16 April 2010 - Business Europe fiercely opposes a role for
the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in patent law. During a conference
in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Thierry Sueur of Business
Europe disclosed the United Patent Litigation System (UPLS) was aimed to
keep the ECJ away from interpreting substantive patent law under the
European Patent Convention (EPC), particularly for software
patentability.
Hartmut Pilch analysed in 2007: "In July 2005, after several failed
attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent
establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitly seeking to
sanction the patentability of software, they are now seeking to create a
central European patent court, which would establish and enforce
patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of
correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators."
Benjamin Henrion, President of the FFII, comprehends their concerns:
"While the US Supreme Court can review decisions of the Texas patent
courts, this recourse would not be available to Europeans. A newly
created UPLS patent court would have the final say over software
patentability."
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Links
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http://www.ceipi.edu/actu_infos.cfm?id_actu=972
http://twitter.com/zoobab/statuses/12272213871
http://epla.ffii.org/sixreasons-upls
http://epla.ffii.org/pilch-vision
http://epla.ffii.org/quotes
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Contact
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Benjamin Henrion
FFII Brussels
+32-484-56 61 09 (mobile)
bhenrion at ffii.org
(French/English)
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About FFII
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The FFII is a not-for-profit association registered in twenty European
countries, dedicated to the development of information goods for the
public benefit, based on copyright, free competition, open standards.
More than 850 members, 3,500 companies and 100,000 supporters have
entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions
concerning exclusion rights (intellectual property) in data processing.
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