"Södertälje, 24 February 2005 - Scania is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of heavy trucks and buses. We are able to successfully compete internationally mainly due to our investments in product development. Using the patent system in Europe to temporary protect our innovations allows us to get a return on our R&D investment.
Scania understands the work carried out by the former European Parliament in its first reading on the Directive on the protection by patents of computer-implemented inventions. However, the suggested amendments will have very negative implications for European industry. We expect the new Members of the European Parliament to listen to all industry sectors relying on patents in their R&D work and to vote in favour of the future Common Position, currently a political agreement including 21 of the amendments made by the former European Parliament.
The political agreement ensures that investments in development of innovations may continue in European companies, without broadening the scope of patentability towards business methods and the US patent system. [...]"
This statement of a truck manufacturer makes clear that the version of the European Parliament of the Draft Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions would not only harm companies in the telecommunications sector but also other branches far away from the mainstram of IT-centered businesses.
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Dipl.-Phys. Axel H Horns is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney),
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