Patents:
FFII: Conferences and ‘Patent Riots’ in Brussels 2004-04-14
: ‘The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) calls
on its 50.000 European supporters and on 300.000 petition signatories,
including more than 2000 CEOs of European software companies, to take to
the streets in Brussels on April 14 and in national capitals around 1st
of May, and to temporarily block access to their websites, in protest
against new moves by the EU Council and Commission to legalise patents
on computerised calculation rules and business methods’.