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eWeek: American-Style Patents Won’t Cross the Pond to EU

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jul 7, 2005

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“The European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the European
Union’s controversial IT patenting proposal on Wednesday, but what
will that decision mean for business and open-source?

“The European patent efforts had been intended to standardize
the EU member states’ laws on the patentability of IT-related
inventions, especially software…”

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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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