“Good news from Europe. The Computer Implemented Inventions
Directive–the software patents law to you and me–has been
defeated at the very last minute.“What’s remarkable isn’t so much that the directive has been
kicked out of play as the strength of the boot applied. The legal
affairs committee voted by 19-2 to ask Parliament to withdraw it,
an astonishing show of dissatisfaction for something within a
whisker of being approved. It is admirable that the process can
stop bad law at such a late stage, but sobering that it got so
close…”