You remember Floris Florian Mueller of NoSoftwarePatents.com complaining about the EU Council's thoroughly perplexing decision to make the EU Software Patents Directive an "A" (priority) discussion item? No? Here's a refresher:

"A wannabe Napoleon who heads the Commission and a Microsoft puppet that runs the DG (directorate general) in charge have decided to negate democracy."

The European Parliament has dropped its objections to the way the "common position" of the EU Council on the planned Directive on the Patentability of "Computer-implemented Inventions" was adopted. The Legal Committee of the European Parliament had initially insisted on examining the protocols of the decisive meeting of the Council of Ministers at the beginning of March. ...According to a parliamentary spokesman, the Legal Committee had now decided, however, no longer to take into account the "small irrelevant errors" committed.

Next up: more lobbying as the EU Parliament hashes out its objections to the Software Patent Directive within the confines of what CoCo blog calls "the restrictive procedure of the second reading."

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