Hello,

What is the state of the current draft for software patents. You see I'm not a law. but am in a flux to make changes to the current draft. They need to be in Dutch and I will hand them over to Kathleen Van Brempt sp.a EU parl. She will give in any proposal I make. For that to do I need to know how bad the current draft is with all the changes. (Saying simple NO to software patents won't do)

Thanxs Onno Timmerman sp.a

No time for a good answer now, but fortunately it's already written (not in Dutch, sorry):

Problems with the Juri committee rapporteur draft http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/amccarthy0302/index.en.html

Counter proposal (how would good amendments look like) http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/prop/index.en.html

Basically ITRE and CULT committees have done well, but still left one hole each that allowed for swpats (closed many others, though). The Economic and Social Committee of the EU also voted a very good report, but the 3 docs are only opinions and don't seem to have been followed much so far.

There is a meeting today of the JURI comittee in the Europarl where they may discuss the swpat directive.