Well, I didn’t get any new replies today, so I’ve sent the following “please don’t ignore me” message to the tardy MEPs.
Regarding the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions
Dear MEP,
I’m writing concerning a letter I sent to you on Friday 8th April
regarding the proposed “Directive on the Patentability
of Computer-Implemented Inventions”. I know that you’re very busy, so I
understand why I’ve not yet received a reply. However, this directive
has now entered the three month adoption/amendment/rejection period
within the parliament, and I wanted to make sure that you received the
letter, and that the content had not been overlooked.
I would not normally bother you after only two weeks, but the current
propositions impact on our IT industry would be devastating. I urge you
to read both my objections and those of huge numbers of real developers
within the UK and EU. I hope you’ll then agree that the directive cannot
be allowed to pass in its current form.
Yours sincerely,
Adam Wright
adamw@archgrove.co.uk
As always, I’ll post here with any responses I get.
For the virtually noone who’s interested, I’ve still yet to recieve any replies from Labour or the Lib Dems. The Conservatives “reply” also hardly counts.
As the legislation has now begun to wind through it’s second reading, I’ll send an email reminder to all the non-respondents tomorrow (and post the text here).
Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for South East England, has responded to my letter regarding software patents. Unfortunately, he doesn’t even read it, saying that because the Conservatives disagreed with the proportional representation system used at the EU elections, they’ve decided to subdivide the South East into 4 constituencies, and sending a letter to him was not appropriate. He’s passed my letter on to Richard Ashworth, who’ll now have two copies.
Given that there’s no information on this anywhere on the Europarl website, it seems a rather churlish thing to do - “We didn’t want the system, so rather than play fair with it, we’ll just be petulant and pretend it runs the way we want anyway”.
Ah well, I can at least hope that Mr Ashworth will read the content, and pass the contents onto Mr Hannan.
Again, the big 3 parties failed to reply to my letter. If nothing arrives tomorrow, that’s an entire week without even an acknowledgement. If I don’t have replies by next Wednesday, I guess I’ll have to find a higher profile method of getting a response.
No new replies to my software patents letter today. I’m still waiting for responses from the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates (and one independent). This is not an impressive showing for the major parties candidates, compared to the responses I’ve already had from Green and UKIP.
