Tigrou - 12:22 pm on Jul 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

I consult in the EU Gvt area and it was very much discussed here.

Summary is that the present system allows for pattent applications but is truly crap as there are few consistent rules and waaaay to much power is left in the hands of minor bureaucrats. This doesn't change.

This law would have clarified issues and actually limited a lot of opportunities to try for patents. Get past all the hooohaaa and Open Source crowd shot themselves in their non-patented feet.

Same could be said for business groups as for now, due to innner Brussels politics, it's unlikely to come back in any form soon. Parliament brutaly rejected this one.

Shame that everyone loses.