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Wednesday, February 04, 2004Mr Erkki Liikanen on patent policy. Mr Erkki Liikanen, Member of the European Commission, responsible for Enterprise and the Information Society, in: "Creating a predictable legal environment for competitive and innovative electronic communications in the European Union", Public hearing on remedies under the new regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services, Brussels, 26th January 2004.
"[...] We need to balance the interest that consumers have in additional competition today versus the incentive that investors have to make risky investments in an unproven area. This is a trade-off that society often faces in areas such as patents. [...]" What might that mean e.g. with regard to the Commission's position on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions? Would Mr. Bolkestein endorse such statement of his colleague?
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