The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a non-profit association registered in Munich (Germany). (Disclosure: I am a member of the Advisory Board).
There is also a United Kingdom volunteer group of the FFII.
Now a similar foundation has started some activity in the US. The Public Patent Foundation wants to represent the public's interest against wrongly issued patents and unsound patent policy. Their latest news is a challenge to a patent on FAT technology held by Microsoft.
Until now the League for Programming Freedom seems to have been the organisation closest to the goals of the FFII in the US. Maybe the new Public Patent Foundation can work in the same direction, and even consider cooperating with the FFII in one way or another.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at April 18, 2004 11:38 PM | TrackBack