12/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Italian Radical Marco Cappato, MEP, has written to the Italian Minister for Innovation and Technology, Lucio Stanca, to ask him, if he represents Italy at the Competitiveness Council of 17 and 18 May, to oppose the proposal by the Irish Presidency on the patentability of software. The Irish proposal rejects all the amendments introduced by the European Parliament on 24 September 2003, limiting patentability, says the Lista Bonina MEP, who says, "pure software...