Transcript of Forfas lecture on software patenting:
http://www.forfas.ie/news/intellectual_property/Lecture6_Transcript_june05.p...
it's quite incomprehensible -- I think the quality of transcription wasn't too hot. But the speaker is clearly a very big fan of software patenting (unsurprising: it's his job, as a patent attorney). He doesn't like the idea of requiring a "subjective" test for patent validity, claims that not permitting software patents will send us back to the stone age, and ends with a call for the attendees to contact their MEPs and ask them to vote in favour of the McCreevey directive text.
--j.