Brazil's USP FLOSS Competence Center (CCSL-USP) and the CTS-FGV joined forces to develop a comprehensive study and sent, on May 15th 2012, a position paper to INPI (the Brazilian National Institute for Industrial Property, responsible for patents in the country) on software patents. This paper provides concrete legal arguments against software patents, both in general and within Brazil specifically, and highlights the many issues identified in the current procedures adopted by the INPI regarding software patent applications.
The study is titled uma contribuição do Centro de Competência em Software Livre da Universidade de São Paulo CCSL/USP em conjunto com Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da Fundação Getúlio Vargas do Rio de Janeiro - CTS-FGV (contribution by the USP Free Software Competence Center in partnership with the FGV Technology and Society Center) regarding the document:
“Procedures for the examination of patent applications involving inventions implemented by means of computer programs”
submitted to the Public Request for Input by the Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial do Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior (National Institute of Industrial Property, subjected to the Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Exchange) - INPI/MDIC
Colaborators:
- Eros Roberto Grau (Full Professor at the Law Institute at USP and former member of the Supreme Federal Court)
- Tercio Sampaio Ferraz Junior (Full Professor at the Law Institute at USP)
- Juliano Souza de Albuquerque Maranhão (Associate Professor at the Law Institute at USP and Legal Coordinator of the CCSL/USP)
- Fernando de Magalhães Furlan (ex-president of CADE - Administrative Comitee for Economic Defense - and visiting researcher at the Macau University)
- Fabio Kon (Full Professor of the Computer Science Department at the Mathematics and Statistics Intitute at USP and director of the CCSL/IME-USP)
- Nelson Lago (Master graduated by USP and Technical Manager of the CCSL/IME-USP)
- Paulo Meirelles (Master graduated by UFRGS, member of the Associação Software Livre.org (Free Software Association.org) and researcher at the CCSL/IME-USP)
- Joaquim Falcão (Director of the FGV Law School)
- Ronaldo Lemos (Full Professor at the FGV Law School and Director of the CTS/FGV)
- Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza (Full Professor at the FGV Law School and Vice-Director of the CTS/FGV)
- Bruno Magrani (Master graduated by Harvard and Professor at the CTS/FGV)
- Joana Varon Ferraz (Master graduated by FGV e Professor at the CTS/FGV)
- Karin Grau-Kuntz (Ph.D. and Master graduated at the Ludwicg-Maximilian Unversität de Munique, Academic Coordinator of the Brazilian Institute on Intelectual Property - IBPI)
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