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The European Parliament is facing the challenge of reaffirming the effective exclusion of software patentability for which it had voted on 24th September 2003, so as to be able to force the Council and Commission to conduct a discussion on substance. This page contains pointers to documents which may be worth consulting by members of the European Parliament when amending the Council's Uncommon Position.

Voting List

• FFII Final Voting List for plenary second reading

  • German Translation / deutsche Fassung

Analysis

Plenary

• FFII Preliminary Voting Advice: html (EN|FR) | pdf (EN|FR)

• Collated amendment texts, and analysis: html | pdf - also below

• Goals of the most important amendments (1 page): html | pdf | doc

• Explanations of the most important amendments (2 pages): html | pdf | doc

• Text of the 21 all-party coalition amendments (version tabled by Roithová and Buzek): pdf | doc

• All tabled amendments: Europarl site (gives intermittent errors)

Article-by-article collated amendment text with discussion:

• Motion for Rejection of the Directive

• Articles 1 and 2: Scope and Definitions

• Articles 2(b), 3 and 4: Patentability and Exclusions

• Article 5: Programs Claims / Freedom of Publication

• Article 6a: Interoperability

• Articles 7,8: Monitoring etc (not yet analysed).

• Recitals 1 - 10: Background Recitals

• Recitals 10a - 17a: Patentability Recitals

• Recitals 18 - 21a: Remaining Recitals

Baseline for amendments: Council text of 2004-03-07 (pdf)

Legal Affairs committee, 2005-06-20

• Voting list and Analyses of amendments voted on in JURI, 20 June

News and Chronology

• 2005-06-21 EU UEAPME: Parliament proposal on software patents would hit small firms

• 2005-04-27 EU UEAPME (represents 11 million European SMEs) supports Mr. Rocard's preliminary report

• 2005-04-13 EU BEUC (European-wide consumer organisation) asks EP to restore first reading results, safeguard interoperability

• 2005-04-07 phm proposes 5-step Questionnaire/Checklist for Software Patent Legislators

• 2005-03-28 FFII distributes a letter with appendices on paper to all MEPs

The letter and appendices distributed to MEP mail boxes on 2005-03-28

• Letter with Position about the EP's second reading

• Appendices to the letter

Reference numbers

Official documents from the EP's first reading, Council and Commission

More information

• Summary of economic and juridical studies relating to software patents

• Tabular Comparison of Council vs Parliament text

• Overview of Proposed Amendments of 2003-09-24

• What's wrong with the Council text

• FFII Interests regarding the Software Patent Directive

• Polish Government's Unilateral Declaration

• Urgent Appeal to the Council

• FFII Counter-Proposal of 2002-2003

  • Minimal Proposal

• 23 Questions to the Council

• Short Introduction on the basic questions and the history of the directive