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Europe spurns patent directive by huge majority
News The European parliament voted on Wednesday to reject the directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventions. A spokesman for the European... [06 Jul 2005]
Software patent loopholes have grown, say campaigners
News Amendments to the EU's directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, which would have prevented companies taking out pure software... [22 Jun 2005]
Software patent directive too lax, says UKPO
News The minister for science and innovation, Lord Sainsbury, and the UKPO agreed to hold the workshops after a public meeting at the end of last year, where software companies and developers expressed their concern about the... [31 May 2005]
Has Amazon patented casual sexism?
News Patents on pure software and business processes (or the idea of writing software that supposes girls may like dolls) are currently not enforceable in Europe, but a draft directive on the "patentability... [10 Mar 2005]
IBM slammed over patent giveaway
News In Europe, IBM is a driving force behind the extension of the scope of patentability with respect to software. However, Florian Mueller, the campaign manager of an... [11 Jan 2005]
Torvalds tells EU: 'Hands off our software'
News Linux creator Linus Torvalds has made an appeal to the EU Council to oppose the adoption of the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented... [23 Nov 2004]
Software patents hit Polish blockade
News The Polish government said on Tuesday that it could not support the controversial European directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented... [18 Nov 2004]
'Europe needs [software] patents'
News In September 2003 the European Parliament tried to water down the Council's Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions by adding... [01 Nov 2004]
EU software patent vote delayed again
News The proposal] achieved.unnamed aims such as unlimited patentability of 'computer-implemented business methods' and absolute priority of such patents... [01 Dec 2003]
'Patent war' could be sparked by EU directive
News The European Parliament recently voted to approve the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, but with a series... [06 Oct 2003]
Bureaucrats rubber stamp EU software patent law
News The European Parliament has voted to approve a highly controversial directive governing the patentability of computer-implemented inventions - including... [25 Sep 2003]
Torvalds and Cox make patent protest
News Cox and Torvalds are the latest to protest against the proposed Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, which will come... [22 Sep 2003]
EU digital copyright vote delayed again
News The delay in voting on the new proposal follows the rescheduling of a vote on a proposal on the patentability of computer-implemented... [12 Sep 2003]
Software patent vote delayed by protests
News Software patents have been likened to allowing a monopoly on the ideas behind stories and opponents of the draft Directive on the Patentability of... [02 Sep 2003]
Innovation the loser in patent row
Comment Protests this week have included mime artists on the streets of Brussels and 600 online firms take down the front page of their websites in protest at the proposed, and suitably snappily named, Directive... [28 Aug 2003]
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