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ESC and Software Patents

The Economic and Social Council of the European Community (ESC) is a consultative organ which unites experts and scientists from various fields and drafts working papers or opinions for the co-deciding organs of the European Union (CEC, CEU and Europarl) to consider. In Sep 2002/09 it produced a report that is very critical of the CEC software patentability directive and demands a rewrite which should take the interests of SMEs and free software into consideration and formulate proper policy goals.