1 General Tasks

• inform the public about problems of patentability and patent governance in Europe
• maintain existing documentation of FFII regarding this subject

2 Current Tasks

• finalize and launch the Call for a Better European Patent System
• document and improve the computing platform on which this site is based
• further formalize this workgroup, clarify its decisionmaking structure, work out its budget for the current year

3 Who is this Group

See EUPAT Worgkroup page

4 Access to this Site

4.1 Online Editing

By registering as a user in the user managment system at the top of the left-hand menu, you gain access to wiki-like browser-window editing of the newer pages of this site.

4.2 Offline Editing

For full and efficient editing, you can checkout the contents of the whole site from the Subversion archive by saying

svn checkout http://a2e.de/svn/eupat

using your FFII login data.

To do this successfully, you need a permission. Write to adv at a2e de to obtain it.

Apart from the eupat repository, there are also separate repositories for all the branches of the old site: swpatbin, swpatgirzu, swpatminra, swpatpenmi, swpatsarji, swpatvreji, swpatgasnu, swpatlisri, swpatpapri as well as for some other sites such as nosoftwarepatents.com (nsp) and money.ffii.org (ffiinnc, sig_ffiinnc).

5 Further Reading

• FFII Workgroups and activities
• Hartmut Pilch’s I2P services
• a2e data processing
  • PHP, php_users
  • Deplate
  • Subversion
  • MKTDIR: tools for creating and moving nodes
  • multilingual hypertext
  • Cascading Stylesheets
• Wikipedia: Eupatoriae: a herb with both poisoning and healing effects, possibly a symbol, either for the european patent system’s effects on the economy or for this workgroup’s effects on the european patent system, or both ?