Ernesto Revilla
CEO of SICEm

Unlimited software (SW) patentability would give weapons to rich companies and make small ones helpless. It would hurt seriously software industry in Europe, in favor of the most powerful companies (almost all non-European). They have the resources to register and defend trivial and non trivial SW patents, also called "computer implemented inventions patents", we have not. Our liberty of expressiveness may be seriously limited. We don't think that the approval of this type of patent laws will improve innovation and competitiveness in the EU, rather it's one step more against social policies the European Constitution draft wanted to defend. Additionally, the way this directive is being developed by Commission and Council against national and European parliaments, no matter if jumping over own written rules, is once again a strong step against democracy in Europe.