Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-044"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Patentability of computer-implemented inventions2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030923.2.2-044"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-23-Speech-2-0452
lpv:speaker	lp:Geneviève Fraisse2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Indépendant (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there are a number of things I do not understand. I am not sure, for example, that I understand the reasons for deciding to draft this directive. If this is simply a problem for the European Patent Office and for applications for patents, I believe that this is really quite a limited starting point. What is completely beyond me is that the European Commission, which is so concerned about preventing concentrations in industry, is proposing – if we are to believe a number of experts – support for industrial concentration. This appears to contradict the Commission’s objectives. Nor do I understand the amnesia we are seeing here with regard to the disastrous directive on patenting life. No one knows how to implement this directive and its validity is universally questioned. Can one patent the cells of a leaf without patenting the leaf itself? The problem of software and of technical contributions is identical. The legal uncertainty we faced with regard to the directive on patenting life reappears in connection with the patenting of software, programmes and technical contributions. I am struggling to find the right words because the directive gives no clear definition of a technical contribution. In light of these uncertainties, I find it hard, Commissioner, to understand what is happening here. Mr Rocard referred to 6 000 years of history, but history has speeded up as rapidly in the field of biotechnologies as in those of software and computing. Are we going to be able to pursue these rapid developments when economists are predicting that we will have a number of problems to face? In the field of pharmaceuticals, we are told, it is easier to see what is an innovation and it is easier to determine what is covered by copyright or a patent. With regard to software, it is still extremely hard to tell. Publishers and teachers fear that this type of directive threatens the knowledge-based society, transparency and the circulation of information. I thought that the European Commission and Europe had made preventing such threats one of their aims. I do not understand what is going on here."@en1

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