The parliament's version of the text addresses this by making sure patents can not be claimed against a pure software product:
Article 5(1).
Member States shall ensure that a computer-implemented invention may be claimed only as a product, that is as a programmed device, or as a technical production process.
See
FFII's analylis, and notice how the Commission makes an absolute mockery out of it, using similar wording to state the opposite.
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The parliament's version of the text addresses this by making sure patents can not be claimed against a pure software product:
See FFII's analylis, and notice how the Commission makes an absolute mockery out of it, using similar wording to state the opposite.