In its attempt to press national ministers to quickly reject the European Parliament's amendments to the proposed software patent directive, the European Commission's Industrial Property Unit has circulated a document among the ministers in which it nitpicks on side aspects of each amendment, trying to present those that limit patentability as logically flawed in some way. In order to do this, it makes a lot of unreasoned and provably false statements.
[Draft analysis of Commission Commentary by Jonas Maebe http://www.ffii.org.uk/texts/notes.en.html]
[Beginning of draft analysis of same by Hartmut Pilch http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/cec0311]
