Patent battle to culminate in Brussels
Matthew Broersma,
CNet News.com,
Aug 27, 2003
Today (Wednesday) is protest day in Europe as thousands of website owners and other interested parties express their objection to proposals to impose new US-style patent laws in the community. The laws would extend the range of patents, allowing, for example, the widely detested (and abused) patent on business methods. "Leaders of the scientific communities and software business world took the directive proposal apart and condemned it in every respect. Yet in June, the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Commission endorsed this proposal with further amendments that make it even worse."
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