FFII et al.
- This page describes both the organisation registered as "Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure" (FFII) and the community identified by the press as FFII, thus "FFII et al."
FFII et al. was the most influential group in the EU software patents directive from 1999 until the directive's rejection in 2005. After the rejection of this directive, FFII continued to act as a watchdog and to de-construct the patent policy of the EU institutions such as the various proposals for a unified European patent jurisdiction (EPLA, UPLS, etc.).
FFII popularised The Patented Webshop.
 Related pages on en.swpat.org
- Erik Josefsson on software patents
- The EuroLinux petition - FFII was a prominent member of this coalition
- ffii.org - main FFII homepage
- FFII's letters (a selection)
- FFII has many sub-sites, some of which focus on software patents such as:
- How Software Patents Really Work (video, by FFII-UK)
(Can you help? There is useful information about software patents on the following sites, but we need help to find the key pages:)
- A 2009 Bilski v. Kappos brief by FFII et al. (See: Bilski v. Kappos amicus briefs)
- YouTube video: How software patents work
- German original: List of news articles about FFII (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- Slides from a presentation by Benjamin Henrion, June 2009
- German original: Interview with André Rebentisch, January 2010 (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- (in German) Software-Patente. Nicht schon wieder!, May 2010, presentation by Peter Gerwinski
- FFII, Wikipedia
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