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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

EU Council: Consultation Procedure on "Common Guidelines" for Patentability of CII?

I just stumbled over a somewhat cryptic

Document 16120/04 ADD 3 saying

"[...] Subject : Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions
- Common position
- Statement of the Council's reasons

COMMON GUIDELINES
Consultation deadline: 04.03.2005

Documents 11979/04 INIT PI 61 CODEC 962 + COR 1(es) + COR 2(de) + ADD 1 + ADD 1 COR 1(de) + ADD 1 COR 2(es) are the subject of a consultation procedure, 04.03.2005 being the deadline.

N.B. For reasons of urgency, consultation deadline is shorter than 7 working days."

So what does the Council Secretariat want to tell us with the above-mentioned document? Hectic activity in COREPER? I don't know. Rumors say that the EU Council is determined to formally adopt the May 2004 political agreement on Monday March 07, 2005. But many of such dates have passed by without anything being formally adopted.

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