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lpv:document identification number	"en.20050706.23.3-175"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-07-06-Speech-3-1762
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilda Figueiredo2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Coligação Democrática Unitária (PCP-PEV) (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; EMPL (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	". We welcome the adoption of our proposal to reject the Council Common Position of March 2005 on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions. As we have consistently said since the Commission tabled the proposal for a directive in 2002, implementing software patents would undermine intellectual freedom, technological innovation and the development of Europe’s economy, as scientists, professors, the student community, many organisations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have rightly pointed out. The high costs of patents would hinder SMEs, which would not have the wherewithal to pay for patents and might even see their ideas patented by third parties. Software patents might also be used by large companies as a means of blocking new companies from entering the market. It is wrong to award patents to ideas, to knowledge and – who knows where it will end – to life itself. We have therefore done as before and signed the proposal to reject the Council common position, which was adopted today. This is a victory for knowledge, for innovation and for the freedom to create ..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Rule 163(1) of the Rules of Procedure)"1

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