The fate of the European software patent directive is set to be decided next week, as its supporters and its opponents head to a final showdown in Brussels.
In the red corner, we have the Council of Ministers, the authors, and long-time supporters, of the current draft. In the blue corner, we have the European Parliament, an increasingly powerful institution, determined to send the bill back to the drawing board. The battle to be fought involves some extraordinarily dull parliamentary procedural rules, so don’t expect it to be pretty.
European software patent law hangs in the balance | The Register