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Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive taken off EU Parliament's Agenda.

There is a

report saying that the controversial Intellectual Property rights (IPR) enforcement directive was withdrawn from the Parliament's February 09, 2004 plenary agenda because of fears that the Council might reject it; see also my

earlier posting as well as

this here. (Via

Richard Swetenham's QuickLinks). There is a "LIMITE" non-public paper

(Document 6052/04) of the EU Presidency addressed to the Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER Part 1) concerning the preparation of agreement at the first reading in the EU Parliament.

Probably they want to avoid a

mess like that which had happened in conjunction with the draft Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions ...

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