European software patents via treaty?

FFII has sent out an alert warning that representatives from the U.S. and the European Union are in talks over the creation of a new patent treaty. "Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic." This would certainly not be the first time that international trade treaties have been used to get around domestic democratic roadblocks.

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