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Story: IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration

Posted by: Henri Chapelle (Tuesday 11 January 2005, 9:53 PM)

Rule 55 provides provisions for a new parliament.

The position of the Council is inacceptable for the simple fact that they do not clearly justify the rejections of some amendments of the Parliament. This is not a Common Position.

Furthermore, this directive proposal is old, and even not translated in languages of new member states.

A restart of the process would probably clean this mess, and will profit from the clarifications that the whole process has acquired.

It seems that some people are really worried about rushing to a bad legislation, making software patentable.

"Computer Implemented Inventions" has been created by the initiators of the directive to fool everybody, and this term was even not used before 1998. Software is not an invention, and in this field, patent right conflicts with the rights of the authors to benefit from their creations.