Malcolm Tyrrell wrote:
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.
An alternative/additional line would be to ask IE for a declaration from the Council (and/or a declaration from IE itself), asking the Commission to reconsider its position and support restart.
(as well as pointing up the problems with the current draft, and urging IE not to adopt it).
Restart gives the best chance for new language to emerge, as desired by so many member states, both on defining "technical", and on the problems of interoperability and standards ambush.
Is there any chance of support in the Dail, to put in more political pressure ?