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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
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<i>1999</i>
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<i>2004</i>
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<i>Committee: </i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i>
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<b>AMENDMENT by:</b>
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Willy DE CLERCQ (ELDR)
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To DRAFT REPORT/OPINION by
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<b><br></b><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b><b>Arlene McCarthy</b><b></b><b> </b>
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PE
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327.249
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<b>On </b><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b><b>Patentability of c</b><b>omputer-implemented inventions</b><b></b><b> </b>
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Proposal for a
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COM ():
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Date:
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2/04/2003
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Signature:
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(Amendment 1)
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Form of claims
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1 Member States shall ensure that a computer-implemented invention may be claimed as a product, that is as a programmed computer, a programmed computer network or other programmed apparatus, or as a process carried out by such a computer, computer network or apparatus through the execution of software.
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2. A claim to a computer program, either on its own or on a carrier, shall not be allowed unless that program would, when loaded and executed in a computer, programmed computer network or other programmable apparatus, implement a product or process claimed in the same patent in accordance with paragraph 1.
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<i> </i>The paragraph 2, as proposed, corresponding to the orientation of the Council, draws the normal and important consequence for the program of its being a decisive part of the CII. Deciding differently would deprive the patentability of CIIs of any practical meaning, since the program is the core of it and, above all, the part which is under attack through patent infringement. The most energetic defence must be applied to the program.<i></i>
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