software patent debate

For general information on software patents, see the main article. There is heated debate as to whether and to what extent it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented inventions as a matter of public policy.A particularly active focus of the debate in recent times has been the proposed European Union directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, also known as the "CII Directive" or the "Software Patent Directive," which was ultimately rejected by the EU Parliament in July 2005.
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