Re: [Patents] why EU junk legislation survives

[Alex Macfie <alex@cgce.net>]

At 12:01 14/04/03 +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:

> Also here in Italy the directive has not been discussed in the
> parliament but delegated to the government that analyzed it in separate
> specialized commissions and then approved it.

Sounds similar to the UK, where it was delegated to the Patent & Trademark 
Office (PTO) and would have been implemented via a "negative statutory 
instrument", which basically means passed into law without any need for 
parliamentary approval.

However, there was such protest at the original PTO draft (in which one was 
supposed to obtain one's "fair dealing" writes by applying in writing to 
the Secretary of State) that they suspended its introduction until the end 
of March (a time which has passed and still no amended law has emerged).

Alex

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