28/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - In Thursday's Financial Times, European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein defends the Commission's proposal for a new directive on the patentability of "computer implemented inventions". From Monday on, the EP is expected to discuss the report by British Labour member Arlene McCarthy on this controversial issue, but it is possible that the debate will be postponed (see EUROPE of 20 June, p.14, on the subject of the vote on the report in committee, with votes against...