[NetBehaviour] good news-european software patents bill was defeated

[Helen Varley Jamieson]

yeah i heard this somewhere in amongst it all, & it is great!
h : )

>the european software patents bill was defeated on Thursday in the 
>european parliament....
>this is a big deal- no?
>must have got lost in all the bad news.
>ruth
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>EU assembly throws out bill to harmonize patents
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>STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European Parliament threw out on 
>Wednesday a controversial bill to harmonize patents on software 
>which big technology companies had sought to protect themselves.
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>The assembly voted 648 to 14 to reject the bill backed by companies 
>such as Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research), Nokia 
>(NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) and Siemens (SIEGn.DE: Quote, 
>Profile, Research) and by European Union governments, which saw it 
>as a potential boost for technology investment.
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>http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-07-06T124416Z_01_N06196099_RTRIDST_0_TECH-TECH-EU-PATENTING-DC.XML
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