#title: Consilium 2003/09: Proposals for Changes to EPC #descr: The European Council's Working Party on Intellectual Property (Patents), which is a circle of patent administrators who are also sitting on the administrative council of the European Patent Office, has worked out a set of proposals for changing the European Patent Convention (EPC) in view of the planned Community Patent. Substantive Patent Law (art 52-57) seems to have been left untouched by this proposal. #aot: Wishes of the European Parliament to make the EPO more accountable were not accomodated. The EP seems to have no say. The draft doesn't touch the subject of patentability. #Ctr: The UKPO has been urging the European Commission to come up with a directive that legalises its practise of granting software patents and proposed that,should the CEC be slow to come up with this directive, it would pursue changes to Art 52(3) EPC in through the Council. # Local Variables: ; # coding: utf-8 ; # srcfile: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/phm/sys/mlht.el ; # mailto: mlhtimport@ffii.org ; # login: phm ; # passwd: YYYYY ; # feature: swpatdir ; # dok: eupat0309 ; # txtlang: en ; # multlin: t ; # End: ;