Computer Implemented Inventions Directive Adopted
Posted by matijs 09/03/2005 at 12h57
I'm slightly out of touch with happenings in the digital world, so I only read yesterday evening that the EU Council adopted the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. This is a sad thing.
Slashdot points to an article on ZDNet about this. The ffii also has press release.
Interestingly, proponents of this directive are mostly not saying that pure software patents are good. Rather, they argue that the directive as it stands will not allow them (e.g., Frits Bolkestein, Robert Evans, MEP). I wonder if we can hold them to this when the lawsuits start.
Oh, and last evening I read it in a paper newspaper (in dutch), in a bar. Go figure.
Updates: Links to proponents added above, a good overview with arguments against software patents and the wording of the current CIID, the European Parliament is not pleased.