Re: [Patents] Software Patents: EU Council Plans to Scrap Parliamentary Vote without Discussion

[Marcel Martin <mm@ellipsa.net>]

Henrion Benjamin a écrit :

> * The Council proposal documents 8253/04 and 8253/04 ADD from April
>   6 are not accessible "due to the sensitive nature of the
>   negotiations and the absence of an overriding public interest"
>   according to the Council's General Secretariat.
>
> [...] 
>
> * The Irish Presidency explains on its website that it is sponsored
>   by Microsoft. Ireland is "the largest software-exporting country
>   in Europe", thanks to a fiscal policy which makes it a tax haven for
>   large US companies: it has a tax rate on patent revenues of 0%.
>
> [...]

I commented this on my page. Maybe what I wrote is not kind enough to 
be posted here.

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mm
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