Transcript: The state of software patents in 2022 with Panos Alevropoulos

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Note: This transcript is not a faithful reproduction of Panos’s live talk, but an edited version of his presentation. Many parts were rephrased to correct any inaccuracies and provide a more comfortable reading experience. The video of the original presentation can be found here: https://framatube.org/w/4E282g5j6qrYFQtCGN1iwx

Author’s note: This talk was presented at LibrePlanet 2022, about a year before the publication of this transcript. It contains introductory information to the problem of software patents, similar to our 2021 post. For more detailed and up to date information, please visit the ESP Wiki. If you would like to support our cause, please consider contributing to ESP Wiki or donating to the ESP campaign.

Stephen: I’m Stephen, the room monitor for this talk, titled “The state of software patents in 2022,” which will be presented by Panos Alevropoulos. Panos, among other things, is a volunteer member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Licensing & Compliance Lab, admin for End Software Patents (ESP) Wiki, and has a Creative Commons Certificate. Panos, welcome, and please proceed.

Panos: Thank you Stephen for the introduction. My name is Panos Alevropoulos. I studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. I am also a former FSF intern, where I worked primarily on the ESP campaign, to which I continue to contribute as a volunteer. So, my topic for today is “The state of software patents in 2022.” It’s going to be an overview of software patents in 2022 along with some historical elements, and I will explain why software patents are unjust. I mean, you can probably tell that from the title of the campaign, but, to be more specific about what we are going to talk about today, here are the contents of my presentation:

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