EU Fish Ministers to rubber stamp software patents directive?
The legal inquiry of whether software and “computer implemented inventions” should be patentable subject matter is fascinating (at least to me). But, in the continuing saga of software patents in Europe, the patentability question is quickly being eclipsed by the process by which the European Union is considering the measure.
The Agricultural and Fisheries Commission is expected to rubber stamp the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions today, sending the measure back to Parliament.
The Fisheries Commission? Sounds like politically motivated agenda-setting.
Ah, but it gets better. Apparently it is possible that the Commission might not use its rubber stamp because of one member’s act of defiance in a bow to party loyalty.
The politics of this process are beginning to overshadow the substance of the draft Directive.
UPDATE: Axel Horn is reporting that the Directive has been removed from the agenda of today’s meeting.
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