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Software patents in the UK

Posted Feb 28, 2007 1:31 UTC (Wed) by phgrenet (guest, #5979)
Parent article: Software patents in the UK

Thank you Mr Blair. This position wasn't very clear from UK MEPs during the two votes in the European Parliament regarding the software patent directive proposed by the European Commission.

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Software patents in the UK and EU

Posted Feb 28, 2007 9:13 UTC (Wed) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link]

I've written to one of my MEPs about software patents a couple of times. The UK government will have some but not full influence over Labour MEPs - this won't necessarily influence other UK MEP groups in the European Parliament. So all EU citizens still need to talk to their MEPs about software patents.

Software patents in the UK and EU

Posted Mar 1, 2007 20:39 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

I met with two of my MEPs (East of England) during the run up to the previous parliamentary vote. Richard Howitt (Labour) was convinced to oppose software patents by a group in which I tagged along. Andrew Duff (Lib Dem) seemed to argue in favour of software patents when we met during a by-election campaign but nevertheless came out in support of the Rocard amendments (maybe someone else argued better than I did).