[Fsfe-france] PriceWaterhouseCoopers: Patents Threaten Software Innovation

[Xavier Roche]

Une étude du ministère de l'économie des pays bas, réalisée par 
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, qui traite notamment des risques liés aux 
brevets logiciels

<http://www.pwc.com/Extweb/pwcpublications.nsf/docid/EC6DE73A846581CE80256EFD002E41FB/$file/pwc_rethinking_european_ict_agenda.pdf>

Quelques extraits:

"(..) There are particular threats to the European ICT industry such as 
the current discussion on the patent on software. The mild regime of IP 
protection in the past has led to a very innovative and competitive 
software industry with low entry barriers. A software patent, which 
serves to protect inventions of a non-technical nature, could kill the 
high innovation rate."

(..) "Enforcement of IPR is costly and puts SME's at a disadvantage."

(..) "Many large companies operating on a global scale, including 
European ones, seem to be in favour of a software patenting regime. But 
most small enterprises are strongly opposed.
Only very few European companies have prepared themselves for the 
consequences of a software patent regime."



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Xavier Roche
roche at httrack dot com