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European Readers, Please Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO, Tell Them About Software Patents and EPO Corruption

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025,

updated Dec 11, 2025

A few days ago I published this complete list of contacts and ideas of things to tell them in their own language.

Those people represent you this week if you live in Europe. Today they'll meet for the second time (second day of a two-day meeting).

If you value GNU/Linux, then you probably care about coding and Free software. So you probably oppose software patents. Please contact your representatives about it. There are also criminal aspects.

We've heard that our reporting is read by many and that it already has a positive impact. Even EPO staff is rebelling.

"Excellent," one reader said, as "the EPO work you do here is *very* important in getting patent reform and eliminating sw [software] patents".

Contacting your representatives about it will probably just take a few minutes. Please do it. That can impact how they will vote today. It can improve Europe for all programmers and for computer users. █