Copy of letter from Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, to Keith Bradley MP, dated 17 January 2005. The letter says:
Dear Keith,
Thank you for your letter of 22 December enclosing correspondance from your constituent Mr Marek Isalski, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 concerning the patenting of computer-implemented inventions.
Letter from Keith Bradley MP, to Marek Isalski, dated 22 December 2004. The letter says:
Dear Marek Isalski,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 13th December, 2004 regarding software patents in relation to EU legislation.
In order that your concerns can be properly addressed, I have today written to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on your behalf and immediately I receive a reply I will write to you again.
Yours sincerely,
The Rt. Hon. Keith Bradley MP, Manchester Withington
Software patents. I don’t want them. I don’t think my employer will want them. The EU is pushing a directive permitting software patents. Believing myself to be in the EU (which currently does not permit software patents), and believing the UK to have adopted the same patentability laws as the EU, I faxed my MP.
It’s been a pretty interesting “first day” of releases. I have to admit
to myself that I hadn’t quite been organised enough and merged two
bug-fixes into the main source tree (did I lose applying them somewhere
between work and home? I need to stop having three CVS repositories and
carry just one around on CompactFlash!).
