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Wednesday, October 22, 2003

EU Council starts deliberating on patentability of computer-implemented inventions.

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agenda of the meeting of the Working Party on Intellectual Property (Patents) of the Council of the European Union scheduled to be held on October 23, 2003 in Brussels comprises a topic "Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions: consideration of the outcome of the European Parliament's first reading (11503/03 CODEC 995 PI 70), taking into account 14017/02 PI 69 CODEC 1401. "

Hence, tomorrow the Council will start deliberating behind closed doors on the hottest topic currently on the EU IP agenda. It can safely be assumed that most if not all of the participants of that meeting will not be very happy with the result of the first reading of the draft directive by the European Parliament but I do not expect any definitive statement to be published after that meeting tomorrow. Let's wait and see ...

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