EU Software Patentability Directive Stalls Yet Again

EUPolitix.com reported on January 24, 2005, that although ministers had been set to approve the EU "Computer Implemented Inventions Directive" at a Brussels meeting on Monday, the legislation failed to make it as an "A-point" on the agenda of a council of agriculture ministers after continued opposition from Poland. MEPs on the parliament’s legal affairs committee will reportedly meet next week to decide whether to restart the legislative process.