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Förderverein für eine freie informationelle Infrastruktur

FFII

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.

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Response to Intellectual Property Action Plan

14 Aug 2020

The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a pan-European alliance defending the rights to free and competitive software creation since 1999. We are working towards the mitigation of legal risks in software development. We do so by keeping software free from patents and promoting a digital infrastructure based on genuine open standards. More than 1,000 members, 3,000 companies and 100,000 supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions concerning exclusion rights (intellectual property) in digital creativity. FFII strongly oppose the UPC in its current form, which is the third attempt to impose software patents in Europe via the jurisprudence of such a court. Our software companies oppose software patents, and we oppose any attempt to validate them via a backdoor. The UPC has all the ingredients to worsen the COVID19 crisis by a patent crisis. See attached for our full submission.
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