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"Mr President, I particularly want to thank Mrs McCarthy for her work on this difficult report. I was shocked to hear some of the comments that were made about her personally and I in no way subscribe to them. However, in the end I voted against the report.
My main reason for doing so was because of the legal uncertainty which is created by the imposition of a patent on software development, particularly when we can see the rapid advance of technology and the new small and medium sized enterprises that are starting up to create software packages specific to certain sectors of industry or business, or merely to create a new game for them to play themselves. All of this could now be prevented because a patent could be placed on the menu option, on the one-click option or in numerous other areas of operation.
As Mrs Ahern said, some improvements have been made, but the reality is that we have to take into account the experience in the United States which has created multi-million and multi-billion dollar legal suits by large companies against small companies, which have stifled innovation, prevented new invention and prevented job creation."@en1
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