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Second Round of EU Patent Fight, Coming Up

Posted by timothy on from the don'tcha-love-patents dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seems that last fall's victory over EU patent regulations was just round one. The current draft rejects all clarifying amendments made by the European Parliament, allowing direct patentability of computer programs. A net-wide protest is being organized on April 14."

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  1. The one good thing by The_Mystic_For_Real · · Score: 5, Funny

    The one good thing about this is that now the US won't fall behind Europe in the software field.

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    Thank you.

    1. Re:The one good thing by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Funny

      But it appears the EU will surpass the USA in the bad law field very quickly...

  2. moo by sleepnmojo · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the sites don't go down in protest, we'll slashdot them

  3. Protest in your living room. by normal_guy · · Score: 5, Funny
    A net-wide protest is being organized on April 14.

    And we know that influential lawmakers frequent Slashdot, Fark, Plastic, and Sourceforge.

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  4. Re:Software patents are good.. in general by fluffybacon · · Score: 3, Funny
    Take a look at Europe, where software patents are uninforceable ....... I'm talking about software that's revolutionary enough that you'd actually be willing to put down a few dollars to buy.
    Indeed if only the europeans could come up with something revolutionary like Linux instead of all the Microsoft rubbish they keep forcefeeding us
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  5. Bull by unsinged+int · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey buddy, what are you in for?

    I wrote a program that used an illegal data structure.

    Woah. Dude. Stay away from me!