Congrats to Irish people for their referendum
July 3rd, 2008, Tomasz RychlickiWhen I see such legislative initiatives as reported by the European Digital Rights at www.edri.org website, I start to doubt about European integration if the process of adopting directives looks like that (you do remember how was the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions adopted and all this controversy with ignoring the voice of one country during the Council meeting right?). I see a lot of advantages of the Community Trade Mark system but lobbying in the European Union makes me annoyed at the bureaucrats and European bureaucracy and you should read this post in such manner. ;)
Update on July 8, 2008.
Philippe Aigrain has written a very detailed post regarding lobby process within the EU in the field of IP law. It is available at www.paigrain.debatpublic.net website.