Brussels, 24/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - MEPs opposed to the patentability of computer-implemented inventions are not discouraged by the political agreement reached on this subject last week by qualified majority at the Competitiveness Council (Spain voted against, while Italy, Belgium and Austria abstained: see EUROPE of 19 May, p.11, and also 20 May, p.8).
Thus, the co-president of the Greens/EFA Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, announces in a press release that, in the new Parliament elected in...