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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Friday, May 20, 2005JURI Meeting Documents are available on-line.On coming Monday, May 23, 2005, the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament (JURI) will have deliberations on the Draft Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions (CII). Meeting documents are available on-line here. Sad to see that JURI starts with the discussion of that matter substantially exactly where the chaotic voting rally of the European Parliament's first reading had ended: Numerous amendments aimed at blocking patents not only on computer-implemented inventions but also patents on each and every computer-implementable invention. Some MEPs really seem to buy Stallman's utopia. FFII & their allies have shown superb propagandistic skills, indeed. If they should prevail it would not be to the benefit of the world economy.
Hr Horns - your blog is interesting, and you are clearly an intelligent person. I do not understand why you find it impossible to accept that JURI may have a point in trying to limit patentability to 'new teachings about forces of nature', or accept that software patents might not be the economic good you seem so sure they are. There is a great deal of evidence and research suggesting that software patents are at best no help, and at worst a serious impediment to innovation (due to increased costs and reducing market competition). There is very little evidence showing that they are economically useful (especially for SMEs). Do you simply not accept all these papers?  Post a Comment
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