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What happens next:

What happens next:

Posted Sep 25, 2003 8:47 UTC (Thu) by RobDavies (guest, #9930)
In reply to: What happens next: by bojan
Parent article: Text of the proposed EU patent directive

That's the reason why the amended directive is a good thing. Nation
Patent Offices have been lax in awarding patents for obvious ideas, ones
with prior art, and finally in many cases simply because software or a
network and computing is used.

It looks like the text makes it clear that should not happen.


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