European Software Patents - The Novel

Well, not quite: but it's a book on the same, by the bloke who probably did more than anyone to scupper the attempt to push through a deeply-flawed software patent regime in Europe last year. As his blog explains, Florian Mueller is making the book freely available under a CC licence. You can choose either the original German, or else an English version.

Sadly, while the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. The next threat is something called the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA): Florian has some background, plus a link to a fuller document. Time to gird your loins again, folks.