[Linux-bruxelles] brevet logiciel et PME

[Laurence Vandewalle]

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SOFTWARE PATENTS AND EUROPEAN SME

A conference organized by the Greens-efa in European Parliament

Brussels Thursday 8 May 2003 9:00-12:00 room ASP 1G2



9:00 		Welcome address by Dany Cohn-Bendit MEP chair Green-efa and Graham Watson MEP Chair ELDR


9:15 	"The Commission's proposal in a legal perspective" by Reinier Bakels, university of Amsterdam, co-author study Juri 107
	With the participation of E. Plooij-Van Gorsel (ELDR, rapporteur opinion ITRE)

9: 45	"Economic consequences of software patents" by Ph. Aigrain, European Commission DG Infso 
	with the participation of MEP Neil McCormick (Efa, Scotland)

10:00 	Panel I : "Innovative SME and Software patents" : Case studies

David Axmark, CEO MySQL (data bases) Sweden
Hakon Wim Lie, CEO Opera (makes sofware for Nokia) Norway
Pierre Haren, CEO Ilog (object-oriented software engineering) France
Wojtek Narczynski CEO Power Media (Custom web software) Poland
Thorsten Lemke, CEO Lemke Software (Graphic Converter) Germany
nn, CEO Symlabs.com (identity manager) Portugal

11:00		Public debate with MEPs and SMEs (Translationforge Sasu, ...)

11:30 	Keynote speach : Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project :"Software patents: restricting users and SMEs for the megacorporations ?"Chaired by MEP Mercedes Echerer

12:00 	Conclusion by Graham Watson MEP and Dany Cohn-Bendit MEP 

After the conference a gathering on the theme "Free ideas for a Free World" with street theater and a buffet lunch is planned in front of the Parliament Place du Luxembourg.

On May 7 afternoon a conference "Software patents from legal wording to economic reality" with B. Kahin and Lawrence Lessig will take place in Hotel Dorint Bd Charlemagne 11-19 Brussels
http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2003/europarl/05/07/

NB : the participation of MEP G. Watson is still to be confirmed
Translation is available in al EU language
Access in free however registration is mandatory