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Story: Software patent limits 'go too far'

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It was clear from the start that the patent lobby
was not interested in "harmonisation and clarification"
but only in having the judicial practise, which they
introduced illegally at the European Patent Office and some national courts,
rubberstamped by a legitimating authority.
Our PR of last wednesday already said it all,
see

http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/

and we are continuing to watch, as the "patent experts"
start waking up and finding with dismay that they
their prerogative of dominating patent legislation seems to have glided out of their hands.
You can bet there will be lots of irritated and funny
reactions during the coming days. As far as the alleged "expertise" of these patent experts is concerned,
I always like quoting their colleague PA Stephan Kinsella, who found golden words on this:
http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/quotes/#kinsella02
The patent lawyer lobby had only words of praise as long as Arlene McCarthy dominated the drafting.
They might be more credible now if they had pointed out that Arlene McCarthy's texts, as approved by JURI, were full of tautologies and contradictions and clarified nothing.
The same is true of the European Commission's original proposal, as was pointed out by the legal expertise which the EP itself ordered.
It was not easy for the Parliament to repair the shoddy legalistic rubbish which Batteson's friends hat submitted to it, but they did a remarkably good job at it.

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