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#EubsaOpinT: Opinions about the Patent Directive Proposal

#EubsaOpinD: Statements by various players

#title: CEC & BSA 2002-02-20: proposal to make all useful ideas patentable

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#eeo: Public letter by Spain's largest Trade Union asking for rejection of directive

#uat: Letter by a group of well known french software creators opposing software patents and the proposed directive.

#isW: French economist Dominique Foray explains why software patents are bad for software development and criticises the directive for its faulty economic reasoning.

#art: reports about a public letter by the German Internet Service Provider 1&1 against the proposed directive

#lse: Jozef Halbersztadt in Poolish journal about the directive

#sel: Magix, a medium-size german software company, is worried that the directive will legalise a lot of lethal patents.

#oew: Report in german newspaper

#epm: McCarthy's private journalist Paul Meller extensively interviews McCarthy with criticism of the tactics of the software patent opponents, however acknowledges that they have increasingly won the mainstream and %(q:may be getting their act together) now.

#Enr: SME Union reports:

#rsa: The EU-Directive about software-patents which was proposed by Commissioner Bolkestein was not discussed by the European Parliament, like it was scheduled in the plenary session of last week. Due to enormous oppositions and objections from representatives of small and medium sized enterprises, the European Greens and the Social Democrats, the discussion about the report of commentator McCarthy, which was already accepted by the legal committee, was scheduled to the next plenary session from 22 to 26 September.

#wni: Supporters of the EU-Directive bring forward that legal security will increase and a unification of the presently different legal positions in several member states will arise. The objectors, on the other hand, fear an enormous aggravation for the European medium sized enterprises. The design of new software would be limited. As the EU-Directive is similar to regulations in the United States of America big enterprises would try to avoid the competition.

#WWs: from SME Union website, see also

#tnc: Interview of FutureZone with Austrian MEPs from Greens and PSE, both of whom see the directive very critically.

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