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EU Moves Towards Single European Patent Standard
theodp writes "A European Parliament committee Tuesday moved toward setting the first pan-European standard for software patents, but outlawed the U.S. practice of patenting business methods, such as Amazon's one-click Internet shopping. 'The European law sets the right benchmark rather than the looser U.S. system,' said the director of public policy for Europe at the Business Software Alliance, which represents 20 software companies including Microsoft and Apple. Amazon representatives in Brussels declined to comment on the new European legislation."
He meant, "the European law sets the right benchmark rather than the loser U.S. system."
(Yeah, I know. I have no plans to quit my day job.)
Who the hell lives in Europe?
hurray for europeans!!! first they gave us culture, then they gave us linux, now they give us some common sense
When I tell an object to delete this, am I killing it or telling it to kill me?
Amazon Tuesday patented the first pan-European standard for software patents. European representatives in Brussels declined to comment on the new Amazon patent.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
That must have been hard to sort out... :)
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
Chilling effects for Europe. This must be bad indeed. They have no sense of personal freedom. They are drones. They have no sacred to God constitution like ourselves.
Poor bastards.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life