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Software patent directive rejected
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In a shock move, the European Parliament has voted down the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive.
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to reject the directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventions.
A spokesman for the European Parliament said that 648 MEPs out of a total of 729 voted to reject the directive, which critics feared would widen the extent to which software could be patented.
Source: ZDNet UK
