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"In its short justification, the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport notes that a ‘patent gives its owner the right to prevent others from commercially using his invention’. Everyone knows, however, that this right is rarely used by the inventor his or herself. Rather, it is often used by big companies. Such companies have the financial means to buy patents and build up vast portfolios. This allows them to market some of their inventions whilst blocking the development of others.
Patents are of very little or no use to inventors. On the other hand, they provide extra means for big industrial and commercial groups. They protect commercial monopoly instead of intellectual property.
As we do not support patents in general, not just those on information technology, we voted against the proposal contained in the McCarthy report."@en1
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