Georg Jakob

Georg Jakob is amongst those, called “Free Software Advocates”. He is a lawyer and an active critic of the over-abundance of so called “intellectual property rights” in general and Software patents in particular. From 2003 on, he was repeatedly invited to hearings in the European parliament regarding Software Patents as well as Copyright, Rights Enforcement and other Industrial Property issues.

He is currently representing the FFII e.V. before the European Patent Office in the opposition against Amazon.com's gift ordering patent.He is also preparing a statement on behalf of the FFII within the recent referral of the questions on the patentability of Software to the Enlarged Board of Appeals of the EPA. As of recent, he has also been involved in the criticism of patents on life, especially the patenting of conventionally bred animals and plants.