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• Society: Activism: Media: Culture Jamming: Patenting Own Genes  (6)
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• Against Patenting Lifeforms - A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies
• 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.
• Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - The biggest software organization in the world calls for a boycott of Amazon for its predatory, monopolistic attempts to control basic web ideas.
• Catalan Linux Users - Analysis of the Directive for Software Patents - Analysis of the report to the European Parliament on the directive for software patents.
• European Anti-Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive - Promotes the idea of bribes to fight software patents.
• Internet Patent News - Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
• The Non-Patent Side of Software Patents - Slideshow presentation exploring the implications of and criticizing software patents.
• NoSoftwarePatents.com - Campaign website against software patents in the EU. (Different languages)
• Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe - A short petition text which was signed by more than 50000 people in Europe during the first few months of its existence and which rallied support statements from 200 IT companies and 1000 programmers
• Protecting Information Innovation against the Abuse of the Patent System - A documentation of software patents focusing on Europe, patent data, article reviews, and news.
• Slashdot - Patents - Featuring patent news, links and discussion.
• Software Patents Mailing List - Mailing list discussions about the economic consequences of patents in the software industry.
• Top Reasons Why No Epatents - Illustrates the main reasons why EU should deny software patentability. Counter-arguments, reports and other informative texts.
• Vienna University - Intellectual Property Rights for the Rich and the Poor? - Summarizes and discusses the impact of the introduction of IPRs protection on developing and least developed countries in accordance with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement.
• A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on Life - 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.

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