Why we are More Innovative without Software Patents
Testimonies from the Economic Majority
| "Patents hamper innovation and interoperability on the World Wide Web" read more | "European companies prefer pressure to improve constantly over risk of patent infringment." read more |
| "Patents are nails in the coffin for the VoIP telephony industry" read more | "Software patents are not a good way to protect intellectual property" read more |
| "Softwareentwicklung in der Autoindustrie braucht Urheberrecht, nicht Patente." read more | "There are hundreds of patents for firewalls that have been granted" read more |
| "Our 1200 consultants want to hand over solutions without liabilities." read more | "Softwarepatente sind im Multimediabereich ein großes Problem" read more |
| "We need business method patents to pay less taxes." read more | "Patent litigation would mean the end to young innovative companies like ours." read more |
| "Softwarepatente sind ein Albtraum im Bereich der Industrie-Automation" read more | "Patents increase our costs by 30-50%, for the sole benefit of US competitors" read more |
| "Software patents only leads to monopolies, bad and expensive software" read more | "Patente würden individuelle Software unmöglich machen" read more |
| "Softwarepatente ermöglichen es großen Firmen, mit kleineren umzuspringen, wie immer es ihnen gefällt" read more | "In many areas, straightforward advancement is simply blocked by disgustingly trivial patents" read more |
| "The choice is contracting locally with companies like mine or off-shoring to India" read more | "Den Ansatz, Datenverarbeitung generell von der Patentierbarkeit auszuschliessen, halten wir für begrüßenswert" read more |
| "Offene Lösungen nicht nicht mit jahrelangen Monopolen auf Quasistandards vereinbar" read more | "Software patents will make us unable to provide benefit for the community" read more |
| "Software should be protected as literary works" read more | "Softwarepatente machen die Software-Entwicklung zur Gefahrenzone." read more |
| "KMUs können es sich nicht leisten, langfristige Patentstreitigkeiten auszustehen, selbst wenn sie im Recht sind." read more | "Software patents will cause more unnesessary overhead and slows down innovation." read more |
| "Softwarepatente zwingen uns eigene Entwicklungen einzustellen" read more | "Triviale Softwarepatente sind innovationshemmend für die gesamte Branche." read more |
| "Software patents are expropriation" read more | "From our point of view, patents will stifle development and render users stranded with inferior solutions." read more |
| "Software patents would lead to 'no progress' for our customers." read more | "Patente auf Software bewirken eine weitere Monopolisierung des Softwaremarkts" read more |
| "Software patents kill the incentive for entrepreneurs to innovate" read more | "Der Automatisierungsbranche drohen unumgehbare Monopole und geldverbrennende Nulsummenspiele." read more |
| "The Council's directive draft is deterring our financiers" read more | "Die Patentierung von Software-Ideen ist überflüssig." read more |
| "Most software patents are for techniques that are obvious to any competent programmer" read more | "We oppose software patenting" read more |
| "Software patents also affect hardware design companies" read more | "Software patents would increase the development costs of new products" read more |
| "Der Direktivenentwurf des Rats schafft keinerlei Vorteile, sondern fundamentale Unsicherheiten" read more | "Kleine Unternehmen sind nicht finanzkräftig genug, um lange Patentstreitigkeiten vor Gericht auszutragen." read more |
| "Kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen (KMU), darunter auch 11com7, werden durch Softwarepatente in ihrer Existenz gefährdet." read more | "Die Haftungsrisiken sind bei Patentverletzungen derart gravierend, dass wir uns bis auf weiteres auf Beratungs- und Contentdienstleistungen konzentrieren werden." read more |
| "Softwarepatente sind Denkverbote" read more | "Software-Patente bieten Verwertungsgesellschaften und Großunternehmen die Möglichkeit, kleine innovative Firmen mit unfairen Mitteln aus dem Markt zu drängen" read more |
| "Mein Unternehmen benötigt bezahlbare Softwareprodukte von kleinen Unternehmen" read more | "One court process is enough to force us to close our business" read more |
| "A bigger company could easily bankrupt us purely by fictitious accusations" read more | "Garantien des Urheberrechts gefährdet" read more |
| "No patents - more innovative freedom" read more | "Softwarepatente würden unsere Arbeit von 10 Jahren vernichten" read more |
| "In the long run, the whole IT area would suffer" read more | "Any suspicion of patent infringement could kill a small company" read more |
| "We say NO to software patents!" read more | "Software Patents, are going to eliminate small and medium size companies. It would be a disaster for the upcoming Greek Electronic Business." read more |
| "Given the sheer number of trivial and meaningless patents already granted (illegally) by the EPO, avoiding infringement is likely impossible even for the simplest products" read more | "Software patents will make our business too risky to continue" read more |
| "Do not write a law just for one person" read more | "If software patents are voted in Europe, we will stop developing and selling software products." read more |
| "No softwarepatents, more jobs, more opportunities, more variety, more security" read more | "Software patents are yet another tool for big companies to kill small ones" read more |
| "Risiken von Softwarepatente sind nicht kalkulierbar" read more | "Softwarepatente bedrohen Innovation und Arbeitsplätze" read more |
| "Less innovation, less competition, more risk." read more | "We would be in real trouble if software patents existed." read more |
| "We request that our MEPs radically refuse the Council's proposal." read more | "It is essential that members of Parliament return to the version of the bill which was adopted on first reading." read more |
| "Extending patents to software will protect large marketing investments rather than innovation" read more | "Patente sind die Waffen juristischer Wegelagerer" read more |
| "Softwarepatente sind eine Herausforderung für unser Rechtsverständnis" read more | "Softwarepatente behindern Ingenieurbüros - nicht nur im IT-Sektor" read more |
| "Software patents would limit employment" read more | "SMEs, like the ours, will have to walk through mined fields" read more |
| "Software patents are the biggest risk to my business - such a big risk that no insurance company will offer me cover." read more | "Our teaching engineering and our projects of development depend on Free Software, directly threatened by the software patents directive" read more |
| "Patents will be a roadblock to the expansion of our sector" read more |
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