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Story: Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
Posted by: Arthur B. (Friday 8 July 2005, 12:40 AM)
To Sarah Ludford.
"Rejection only prolongs the uncertainty around patentability of software-related inventions in the EU. It is running away from the need to take a decision".
It's my understanding that there's not to be patentability of software-related inventions in the EU so what's there to be uncertain about?
Should your statement perhaps be interpreted as a signal that there will be efforts made to realize patentability of software-related inventions in the EU by some until they have their way? Despite a clear democratic signal that's not desired in the EU? If so, then who and how?
"I deeply regret that MEPs are proving incapable of coming up with a sensible version of the text, one which could ensure support for innovation but also reassure software writers and users that we were not going down an American-style route of allowing patents for pure software."
I most welcome that MEPs are proving capable to find the most sure way to not go down an American-style route of allowing patents for software in general which is to boot out patents for software alltogether. Thing is that software patents are an or-or thing, not an and-and. Fact is also that there's already plenty of innovation going on since long and tons of businesses depanding on that. So why the desire to even risk to slap the hand that feeds? Why not instead slap the hand that just takes?
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