The Polish Presidency of the EU has made a proposal for a single European Patent Court.
The proposal is a new edition of the European Patent Litigation Agreement (European Patent Litigation Agreement, EPLA) dar.
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The Swiss Federal Court received in the last week of the public accounts committee of the Senate’s permission to publish the court-house developed software under the GPLv3 open justitia. justitia will be used to open courts of individual cantons, among other things, to investigate court decisions.
In the run up to task quite a stir around open justitia. Proprietary software vendors court accused the Federal Court of distortion of competition, because the software was developed with taxpayers’ money and other courts should be made freely available. Thus, the federal court would provide an administrative unit, according to the commercial provider of commercial services to third parties, for which it is not entitled under Article 41 of the Financial Management Act.
Moreover, the risk was seen that the required independence between federal courts and other courts had been at risk due to business relationships.
The Control Committee of the Council of States (CC-S) took care of the problem and underwent the willingness of the Federal Court, the software under a free license to publish and other dishes at no cost, an audit. Especially the charge of commercial services and the associated distortion of competition has been verified.
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