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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Thursday, September 22, 2005Mr. Florian Müller Nominated as "European of the Year".From TheInquirer:"ANTI SOFTWARE PATENT campaigner Florian Mueller received a nomination today as one the EV50 Europeans of the Year.There are various categories to vote on. One of them is "Campaigner of the Year". Certainly the various grassroots anti-patent campaigns of the years 2003-2005 against the original gist of the Draft Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions have contributed to the history of the lobbying business. Stirring the minds of many thousands of influencal people by a big campaign built on the basis of ridiculous misrepresentations of facts, thereby starting virtually from scratch by utilising Internet communications, surely was a quite unique undertaking. Those campaigns have made lobbying to arrive in the Internet age. Maybe that Mr. Müller as the founder of nosoftwarepatents.com might be seen as one of the key originators of those campaigns deserving such a "Campaigner of the Year" decoration in, however, a somewhat cynic sense. But Mr. Müller proclaimed as "European of the Year"?? Ouch. Anyway, you can vote here.
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