Comments

• Agonarch

  2012-12-02 13:32:08

  Actually, I tried the code out like you did but apparently I didn't succeed. Unfortunately my failed WP experiment got published. It is a call I relay from French organisation APRIL:
  
  

  The purported goal to have a single patent covering the whole Union may be praiseworthy. But this regulation, up to its very title, is actually very deceiving. Indeed, its content leaves the European Union (EU) aside in many aspects, leading to a fragmented patent system, which will be untamable by the democratic bodies of the EU. Instead the “patent microcosm” will gain amazing powers, while its governance has been highly criticised, specially with regard to its practice of granting software patents, against the letter and the spirit of European patent law.
  
  You can change this fate by calling Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), urging them to table, before December 5th at noon, two compromise amendments.

  
  
  It's not about Software Patenting but an 80 yro struggle to get a unified patent system in Europe. Unfortunately the Unitary Patent is not within the EU framework and dispowers the European Parliament. A prior compromise with essential articles between the Parliament and the Council of Ministers was overturned by the heads of state. I think April are right to ask the Parliament to table their two amendments, now that all red lines are crossed: http://call.unitary-patent.eu/campaign/call2/unitary-patent-plenary-12-2012?setlang=en

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2012-12-02 14:07:03

  The unitary patent looks to me like another step towards the global patent system, which together with Japan and the US can spread software patents through so-called trade agreements/treaties.
  
  http://techrights.org/2011/09/13/nafta-approach-and-swpats/ http://techrights.org/2011/09/17/letters-from-japan/ http://techrights.org/2011/10/01/upls-in-eu-council/