Mitch Kapor's Congressional Testimony  
   Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus. This is his testimony to Congress OPPOSING software patents, saying they are harmful.
   http://www.base.com/software-patents/kapor.html

Patents for Surgical/Medical Procedures: A Call for Legislative Prohibition  
   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.
   http://www.ascrs.org/advocacy/execsum.html

Against Patenting Lifeforms  
   A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies
   http://www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1995_11/msg00067.html

GreenPeace Opposition to European Life Patents  
   Press release highlighting opposition to specific patents and refutation of patent claims.
   http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/97/geneng/press/july14.html

Negative Correlation of Innovation and Software Patents  
   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.
   http://www.base.com/software-patents/scoreboard.html

Oracle Corporation - Patent Policy  
   This is a press release by Oracle, the database giant, AGAINST the copyrighting of software.
   http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/oracle.html

Preparing for the Intellectual-Property Offensive  
   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.
   http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-11/lw-11-thesource.html

Autodesk Statement  
   Autodesk, the makers of a very popular animation program, have issued this statement against software patents.
   http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/autodesk.html

Adobe Testimony  
   Transcript of the testimony by Douglas Brotz, an Adobe Principal Scientist, wherein Adobe officially establishes its opposition to software patents.
   http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/adobe.testimony.html

A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on Life  
   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 liv
   http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pat-ch.htm

Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)  
   The biggest software organization in the world calls for a boycott of Amazon for its predatory, monopolistic attempts to control basic web ideas.
   http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html

Internet Patent News  
   Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
   http://www.bustpatents.com/

PanIP Defendants  
   Legal defense group opposing efforts by Pangea Intellectual Properties (PanIP) to sue e-commerce sites.
   http://www.youmaybenext.com/

Protecting Information Innovation against the Abuse of the Patent System  
   A documentation of software patents focusing on Europe, patent data, article reviews, and news.
   http://swpat.ffii.org/

FFII - European Software Patent Horror Gallery  
   Tabular listings and statistics of monopolies on programming problems, granted by the European Patent Office against the letter and spirit of the existing laws.
   http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta

Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe  
   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
   http://petition.eurolinux.org

Slashdot - Patents  
   Featuring patent news, links and discussion.
   http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=155

Catalan Linux Users - Analysis of the Directive for Software Patents  
   Analysis of the report to the European Parliament on the directive for software patents.
   http://patents.caliu.info/dgiv.html

The Non-Patent Side of Software Patents  
   Slideshow presentation exploring the implications of and criticizing software patents.
   http://gibuskro.lautre.net/patents/

Vienna University - Intellectual Property Rights for the Rich and the Poor?  
   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.
   http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h99a/h9950236/iprs/index.htm

AMNews: Unlocking innovation - Patents on procedures hurt patients  
   The American Medical Association opposes patents on medical procedures. Here is one of their articles on the issue.
   http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/1998/amn_98/edit0209.htm

Top Reasons Why No Epatents  
   Illustrates the main reasons why EU should deny software patentability. Counter-arguments, reports and other informative texts.
   http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/TopReasonsWhyNoEpatents

Protecting Innovation Against Patent Inflation  
   The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) features legal information, news and selected online resources against software patentability.
   http://www.ffii.org.uk/swpat.html

Software Patents Mailing List  
   Mailing list discussions about the economic consequences of patents in the software industry.
   http://www.aful.org/wws/info/patents

NoSoftwarePatents.com  
   Campaign website against software patents in the EU. (Different languages)
   http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com