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ITNOW 2006 48(4):14-15; doi:10.1093/itnow/bwl027
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© 2006 The British Computer Society

Focus: Compliance and Legislation

Different place, same controversy

Trevor Cook

A partner at commercial law firm Bird and Bird.

One might be forgiven for thinking that the software patents controversy had died once the European Commission decided, in response to an adverse vote from the European Parliament, to abandon its proposal for a computer implemented inventions directive in July 2005. Not so. The controversy goes on, but in different contexts and in different places.


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