Brussels, 25/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - A hearing of experts on 23 May enabled the European Parliament legal affairs committee to tackle the very real issue of the draft directive on patenting of computer assisted inventions: software patenting needed be allowed? In his draft report, French Socialist Michel Rocard confirmed his analysis of the first reading according to which European law should allow computer assisted invention patenting but which should exclude patents for pure software. In...