We elect MEPs, who stand up for us against the interests of big business, only to have their efforts overturned by the Council. Who are also elected, but not to do that job. Weird system, that.
The law 'aims to boost innovation by ensuring that those who invest in developing genuinely new products that depend on computer implemented technology can, like those who develop other products, get a fair reward,' said the European Commission in a statement. [CORDIS]
Where is the evidence that innovation has been harmed by lack of patentability?
This is the EU which is supposed to be so keen on the importance of SMEs.
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