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European Commission Reverses its Views on Patents

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the maybe-not dept.

prostoalex writes "ZDNet UK News reports "The European Commission said last week that computer programs will be excluded from patentability in the upcoming Community Patent legislation, and that the European Patent Office (EPO) will be bound by this law". Politician Adam Gierek posted a question to European Commission asking the institution to clarify its standings on software patents."

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  1. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Get over it buddy, no big deal, there are lots of new posts everyday, keep on tryin' and don't be a cry baby. You'll get what you deserve in the end.
    btw, England sucks.

  2. Pretty Good start..... by ChrisGilliard · · Score: 1, Troll

    Now hopefully, they ban all patents. People shouldn't have the right to own an idea because it's better if everyone can use the ideas that people come up with. Come to think of it, why allow people to own anything? Who needs property rights?

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    No Sigs!
  3. Re:Clarify please? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Hello, my European brethren. An American here just writing in to let you know that regardless your stance on software patents, Smart cars, and your cozily corrupt relationship with Iraq's former head of state, we as Americans living in the greatest country on Earth, are still better than you.

    Oh, and just for the record, I just got back from a trip to your quaint little continent and I must say your smug delusions of superiority are utterly laughable. Case in point, your cities remind me more of Mexico than a modern first world industrialized country. Literally, a few times I almost thought I was in some turd world shithole, particularly in France. Paris is a dirty, nasty, narrow-streeted farce of a city.

    Nary a city in any of the countries I visited were anywhere close to the grandeur and splendor of say, New York or Miami. None of your countryside evoked the awe and intrinsic joy experienced speeding through the turns and enjoying the spectacles of our storied route 66.

    The EU fails as a society. Please start over.