[Linux-bruxelles] COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION - PRESS RELEASE

[Daniel Lemye]

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
PRESS RELEASE
2583rd Council Meeting
Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research)
Brussels, 17 and 18 May 2004
http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/intm/80522.pdf

PATENTABILITY OF COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED INVENTIONS - Public deliberation

The Council reached political agreement by qualified majority with the
Austrian, Italian and
Belgian delegations abstaining and Spain voting against, on a common
position concerning the
proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented
inventions. Once this text
has been formally adopted by the Council, it will be submitted to the
European Parliament for
second reading.