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German Bundestag supports software patent restart

[Posted February 21, 2005 by corbet]

The NoSoftwarePatents site reports that the German Bundestag has voted unanimously in favor of a restart of the patent directive process in Europe. An English translation of the resolution is available in PDF format.

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Well, not exactly true...

Posted Feb 21, 2005 20:25 UTC (Mon) by mozart3 (subscriber, #19939) [Link]

AFAIK the German Bundestag has _not_ voted in favor of a restart, but they have criticised the current Council version and asked the Government to call for corrections.