In today's show we hear from the executive director of April, the main French association devoted to promoting and protecting Free Software.<br />
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In the next few days, the legal affairs (JURI) Committee of the European Parliament will discuss on the next actions regarding the project for a unitary patent. Behind what looks like a technical text lies a crucial issue: who decides on what is patentable and what is not.<br />
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As software patents are coming back in international news with the Apple/Samsung case, we need to ensure that such aberrations cannot happen in Europe. We calls for a general mobilisation to contact all MEPs, so that the European Parliament finally tackles the issue of the software patentability.<br />
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April has put into place a few campaigning tools to inform and to raise MEPs' awareness. Everything is available on :<br />
<a href="https://call.unitary-patent.eu">https://call.unitary-patent.eu</a>