Polish Atomic Number 82 Cavalry Accuse Against The Patenting Of Ciis

EurActiv.com reports that, led past times quondam Polish PM Jerzi Buzek, 61 Members of the European Parliament direct keep introduced a motion bespeak the Commission to reconsider its proposal on the controversial software patents directive. Noting that "substantial changes" direct keep been made to the proposal since the June 2004 parliamentary elections, the MEPs are demanding that the Commission review its plans. The coalition is made upward of 61 MEPs from thirteen countries too 4 opposing political factions. Half of them are from Poland, which withdrew its back upward to a ministers' understanding on the directive final yr (see the IPKat, 21 Dec 2004).

There was no indication on 10 Jan that the motion would stand upward a endangerment of existence voted on past times Parliament whatever fourth dimension soon. Under Article 55 of the Parliament's Rules of Procedure, the initiatory would demand to come upward from the commission inwards accuse of the dossier. The project design could halt upward going nowhere, every bit it failed to secure back upward from Green MEPs who direct keep persistently campaigned against the patentability of computer-implemented inventions (CIIs).

The Polish wintertime get has scattered the CII patent lobby

Without prejudice to the pros too cons of patenting computer-implemented inventions, the IPKat cannot help admiring Poland for her confidence inwards participating then vigorously inwards the European Union decision-making process. He hopes that roughly of the EU's senior fellow member states volition forthwith likewise accept a greater involvement inwards intellectual holding matters every bit they arise.