21/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - Christian Paul MEP, France, called on Pierre Lequiller, president of the Delegation of the Nation Assembly to the European Union to get the Delegation to take up the issue of the software patent before it was examined by the European Parliament in a few weeks (EUROPE 8 March p 9 on the subject of the adoption of the common position by the Council and on 9 March p 15 on the protests by MEPs faced with the European Commission's rejection to introduce legislation as they had asked it to). Jacques Myard said that according to a report from the delegation's work, patenting software would lead to a quasi-monopoly world-wide for the USA. Christian Paul said that the position of the Barroso Commission on the case could end up with the Commission being called the “Microsoft Commission”.