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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Breaking News: Adoption of Draft Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions has been postponed.

The German Ministry of Justice just sends a press statement indicating that on request of the Polish delegation at today's EU Council meeting the Dutch Presidency has taken item 16 of the Official list of "A" items off the agenda.

This does not mean that the political agreement as reached in May this year has failed. For now, it only means that behind the scenes the hard fighting on the Council's self-conception will continue.

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