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Re: EU Restarts Patent Directive Process
Posted by: Jennifer LeClaire 2005-02-03 14:45:03

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In an ongoing battle to keep software patents out of Europe, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament yesterday voted unanimously to restart the legislative process and request a rewrite of the European Commission's proposed Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The decision is a boon for software patent opponents but a setback for European regulators, said Michael Q. Lee, attorney with Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox in Washington, D.C.

Re: EU Restarts Patent Directive Process
Posted by: Kagehi 2005-02-03 14:50:52 In reply to: Jennifer LeClaire

> "The lack of a patent law really hurts small companies because their inventions could get 'stolen,'" he said. "Patents level the playing field. Without a law it will be open season on those small companies, and that would hurt innovation."
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To bad its the small companies that can't defend their patents that won't benifit from the protection anyway... Oops! It is already open season on them, from big companies that have virtually unlimited funds to contest the validity of any small companies patents, or defend their own infringement of everyone else's.