Apr 21

Preview of Parliament’s Software Patent Directive Position

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The European Parliament’s rapporteur Michel Rocard has published his views (PDF in French) on the software patent directive and outlined the direction which his amendments will take.

Hartmut Pilch of the FFII comments:

Rocard’s outline contains all the necessary ingredients for a directive that achieves what most member state governments say they want to achieve: to exclude computer programs from patentability while allowing computer-controlled technical inventions to be patented. Already in the title of his paper, Rocard proposes to replace the misleading term “computer-implemented inventions” by “computer-controlled inventions”, and the report itself goes to the heart of the matter.

FFII: Rapporteur Rocard publishes preview of Parliament’s Software Patent Directive Position
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