“The European Parliament and European Commission are in the
midst of deciding whether software patents will be permitted in the
EU. The Commission recently informed the Parliament that it would
not redraft the proposed Computer Implemented Inventions Directive
(CIID). The European Parliament must now decide if it will adopt
the Directive as is, which would make software patentable in
Europe.“The Parliament might alternatively reject or amend the
Directive. In other words, whether or not software is patentable in
Europe is up in the air, as it has been since 2002 when the
Directive began its journey through the legislative corridors of
the EU…”
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