Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus. This is his testimony to Congress OPPOSING software patents, saying they are harmful.

An executive summary of the position of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Opthalmic Administrators against patents for surgical and medical procedures.

A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies

This is part of the League for Programming Freedom's submission to the Patent Office, January 25, 1994. It shows evidence that patents hurt even the companies which get them.

This is a press release by Oracle, the database giant, AGAINST the copyrighting of software.

In the interest of ensuring that free software developers having access to patented technology, Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens suggests a number of tactics and strategies to consider.

Autodesk, the makers of a very popular animation program, have issued this statement against software patents.

Transcript of the testimony by Douglas Brotz, an Adobe Principal Scientist, wherein Adobe officially establishes its opposition to software patents.

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.

Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce

A documentation of software patents focusing on Europe, patent data, article reviews, and news.

Tabular listings and statistics of monopolies on programming problems, granted by the European Patent Office against the letter and spirit of the existing laws.

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

Featuring patent news, links and discussion.

Analysis of the report to the European Parliament on the directive for software patents.

Slideshow presentation exploring the implications of and criticizing software patents.

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.

The American Medical Association opposes patents on medical procedures. Here is one of their articles on the issue.

Illustrates the main reasons why EU should deny software patentability. Counter-arguments, reports and other informative texts.

The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) features legal information, news and selected online resources against software patentability.

Mailing list discussions about the economic consequences of patents in the software industry.

Campaign website against software patents in the EU. (Different languages)

Promotes the idea of bribes to fight software patents.