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A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on Life - There is growing worldwide opposition to the granting of patents on biological materials such as genes, plants, animals and humans. Farmers and indigenous peoples are outraged that plants that they developed are being 'hijacked' by companies. Groups as diverse as religious leaders, parliamentarians and environment NGOs are intensifying their campaign against corporate patenting of living things.

AMNews: Unlocking innovation - Patents on procedures hurt patients - The American Medical Association opposes patents on medical procedures. Here is one of their articles on the issue.

Adobe Testimony - Transcript of the testimony by Douglas Brotz, Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems, Inc., where Adobe established itself as opposing software patents.

Against Patenting Lifeforms - A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies

Ask Tim: Software Patents Issue - Article by Tim O'Reilly (of computer manual publisher O'Reilly & Associates) criticizing Amazon.com and starting a petition which gained 10,000 signatures.

Autodesk Statement - Autodesk, the makers of a very popular animation program, have issued this statement against software patents.

GNU Project: Boycott Amazon! - Richard Stallman of the GNU Project calls for a boycott of Amazon for enforcing its patent on the obvious concept of one-click purchasing.

GREENPEACE CALLS ON EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO HALT PATENTING OF LIFE - Greenpeace opposes the patenting of life, and here is a press release on the subject...

Internet Patent News - Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce

Mitch Kapor's Congressional Testimony - Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus. This is his testimony to Congress OPPOSING software patents, saying they are harmful.

Negative Correlation of Innovation and Software Patents - This is part of the League for Programming Freedom's submission to the Patent Office, January 25, 1994. It shows evidence that patents hurt even the companies which get them.

Oracle Corporation - Patent Policy - This is a press release by Oracle, the database giant, AGAINST the copyrighting of software.

Patent Medicine - This author says that the modern patent system is horribly broken, and advocates rewriting it to be more like the Constitution intended, including restoring it to a more limited role.

Patents for Surgical/Medical Procedures: A Call for Legislative Prohibition - An executive summary of the position of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Opthalmic Administrators against patents for surgical and medical procedures.

Preparing for the intellectual-property offensive - Making sure that free software developers have access to the latest technology patents may well be the next great battle for the Linux community. In the interest of spurring debate on how best to ensure that free software developers have access to patented technology, Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens suggests a number of tactics and strategies to consider.

Stuart Cheshire on Software Patents - The author points out how freeware and shareware outpace big, patent-obsessed software companies.

Why Open Source is Winning - An article which says open source is successful because it places software development in the hands of the individuals, not some megacorp with intellectual monopoly grants (patents).

freepatents.org - Help fight to keep patent laws on software from entering Europe.

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