Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-043"
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"Will we all still be able to use our computers in the future without having to pay patent rights to do so? This is the question that is occupying all our minds. What we do not want is the United States situation, one in which patents can be granted on simple computer languages or software. We are, however, less able to agree with each other when it comes to describing this. We also often lag behind reality; you just have to look at what is happening at the European Patent Office. We cannot therefore afford to postpone this any further and must seek proper clarification of what is patentable and in particular of what is not. Personally I think that the right balance has been found in the standpoint of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy and in the amendments put forward by my colleagues Mr Manders and Mrs Plooij. Any form of software is explicitly excluded from patenting. Only genuine inventions must be patentable. They must thus involve a worked-out technical process with industrial applications and not simply an idea or a language. The piece of technology that contains this new technical process must then be protected. Not the fact that you need a computer to use it."@en1
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