2005-03-04-SwpatLetter

(Please see the ActionAftermath page for other reports)

Action

Sent a letter to Commissioner McCreevy asking him to honour JURI's request for a restart of the first reading of the software patents directive. Text of the letter is here: http://ifso.ie/documents/correspondence/20050216swpats-mcCreevy.html

Steps taken to publicise the action

• none

Aftermath

Press coverage

• none

Comments

The sentence in the second paragraph "[bureaucracy and costs...] would greatly harm the Lisbon Strategy", should have been split. As it is, it sounds like the Lisbon Strategy is our reason for writing. Maybe a better wording would have been "[bureaucracy and costs...] would greatly restrict the writing of software. This would greatly harm the Lisbon Strategy." --CiaranOriordan

Lessons learned

We need to include informing our press contacts as part of our action procedure. --CiaranOriordan