We are contacting Nuxeo SAS as a former supporter of the "Economic Majority" campaign (http://economic-majority.com/), launched by the FFII regarding a legislative project which tried to legalise software patents in the EU.
Support from enterprises has repeatedly been decisive for our work, as exemplified by the successful defusing of the software patent directive in 2005. Although this has prevented software patents from being enforceable in Europe, the European Patent Office (EPO) is still granting such patents.
As soon as the Parliament returns after the summer break, Members of the European Parliament will debate on a draft regulation about a unitary patent and on a draft international agreement setting up a unified patent court. But this project amounts to rubber stamp EPO's practices of granting software patents, which would be enforceable before a court that is likely to follow EPO's case law.
In a debate where the position of patent attorneys and judges is yet the only one to be heard, we wish to ask for your involvement to highlight the damage the current project would cause to European ICT enterprises.
Please let us know by answering this mail whether Nuxeo SAS would accept to publicly support the resolution below.
For more information on the unitary patent, please see the dedicated website: http://www.unitary-patent.eu
Yours sincerely,
Benjamin Henrion, FFII president