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updated: 22.November 2000

Europe Nixes Software Patents

 

From Wired News

Europe will not officially allow developers to own patents on software, at least for the time being.

All European countries, with the exception of Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, voted against extending the current European patent system to cover software at the Diplomatic Conference to Revise the European Patent Convention which opened Monday in Munich

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