Here's some interesting reading for everybody in Europe that has received The Package.
Software Patents: Breakthrough in the European Parliament
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/fsfr1010/index.en.html
The Software Patent Directive
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/index.en.html
Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipa...0//EN#SECTION2
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On the used of patented techniques, MEPs say that the Member States should ensure that, wherever the use of a patented technique is needed for a significant purpose such as ensuring conversion of the conventions used in two different computer systems or networks so as to allow communication and exchange of data content between them, such use should not be considered to be a patent infringement.
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