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Software patents in the UK and EU

Posted Feb 28, 2007 9:13 UTC (Wed) by copsewood (subscriber, #199)
In reply to: Software patents in the UK by phgrenet
Parent article: Software patents in the UK

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.

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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).