Hi all.
It looks like the directive will be put forward as an A-item at the Competitiveness Council meeting of March 7th. We'll have to inform the Irish Representative to vote against. I've put the bare bones of a letter on the Wiki. It's still in a very rough state, so any help would be appreciated:
http://www.ifso.ie/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/SoftwarePatents_2fCompetitivenessCouncil...
Malcohol.
P.S. I don't hold a lot of hope for persuading the Irish representative to object. Recall that it was the Irish Government who put this draft forward at the Competitiveness Council meeting of May last year.
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