| | EU asked to restart patents legal process for software | InfoWorld | News | 2005-02-02 | By Simon Taylor, IDG News ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | The decision, made at an impassioned meeting of the Parliament's legal affairs committee on Wednesday, is primarily a victory for the opponents of software patents who have been lobbying members to restart the legal procedure on legislation to insert safeguards against pure software being patented. |
 | | Restarting the procedure would allow input from countries, such as Poland, that felt they had not been properly consulted over the draft law. |
 | | Members of the committee voted 19 in favor, with two against and one abstention, to ask the Commission to withdraw its proposal, known as the computer-implemented inventions directive. |
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