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Volvo letter to EP: Patent Loser Lobbying for Council Proposal

Commemorate Banana Union Day
The representative office of Volvo Motors in Brussels has sent in recent days a paper to members of the European Parliament, dated 15 March 2005, which calls them to support the Council's "Common Position". The letter reads like a copied and pasted from similar letters sent by other large Swedish companies, consisting mainly of unsubstantiated bold statements about the importance of patents and the "devastating effects" that any serious limitation of patentability would have.