Euro Patent Restart Demand Repeated by Parliament

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 17, 2005 @05:50AM from the once-more-into-the-breach dept.

sebFlyte writes "ZDNet UK is reporting that the European Parliament's Conference of Presidents has ratified and repeated the demands of the Parliament for the computer-implemented inventions directive to be sent back to the drawing board, even though the Commission has refused to re-start it after previous demands. From the article: "It is not certain that the Commission will comply with the request of the Parliament, nor that it will use the opportunity to draft a good text ... The new Commission is not obliged to follow the Parliament's request and they might still try to keep all options open and ask the Council to adopt the agreement of last May without a new vote, so as to gain even more options for themselves."

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Where's the constitution? by deepsky · 2005-02-17 11:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This bureaucratic nightmare also shows once more why the new Constitutional Treaty must be adopted as soon as possibile. It will streamline the european legislative process and institutions, and give more power to the European Parliament.
The consitution, signed on october 2004, must be ratified by all the 25 states in order to be valid. So far, IIRC, only four states did it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3954327.stm
Re:Profit Anyone? by saleenS281 · 2005-02-18 06:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

your idea might work except that big businesses have patents for everything under the sun in the computer biz. Stuff that people haven't even found a use for yet, and that they themselves have no use for, just so they can sue when someone does find a good use for it.

IE: let someone else do all the work then just sit back and sue to get your share of their hard work.