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News of Intellectual Property07.07.2005 - CII Directive Rejected by European Parliament LONDON - The UK Patent Office announced on Thursday that the Directive on the patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII) was rejected on July 6, 2005, by the European Parliament during Second Reading. This terminates the legislative procedure. According to the UK Patent Office, the aim of the Directive was to clarify the current law, not to alter the status quo. The existing legal framework governing patentability until now remains in place. Lord Sainsbury, the minister with responsibility for Intellectual Property (IP), said, "The Council of Ministers reached a Common Position in March 2005, so we regret the loss of the opportunity to clarify the European approach, as distinct from that of the US. It would also have given us the opportunity to introduce provisions on interoperability, which could have been useful to software developers. But we respect the European Parliament`s decision." |
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