On Friday, September 24, 2004 at 12:03 +0100, Malcolm Tyrrell wrote:
I believe the patents directive is not on the agenda for todays Council Of Ministers meeting and have been unable to find out when the new directive will be before the European Parliament.
This is interesting news. If I have time on Saturday, I will try to find out what is happening.
Via swpats.ffii.org:
http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=9554841 "Officially, the council has experienced translation difficulties with the new official languages of the EU," said Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens/EFA Group. "In reality this file is returning to Coreper in order to allow the technical discussions between experts from the member states to continue."
(also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/24/software_patents_delayed/ )