I booked NokiaPlanP.com back in the days, P for Patents, I guess I was right.
"how EU democratic processes work"
Well, to make things worse, the EU is not signatory of the Agreement, so you cannot seize the European Court of Justice, nor complain to the European Parliament.
The plan to validate software patents in Europe was to keep the European Court of Justice away from Patent Law.
The elected President Klaus Grabinski of the Unified Patent Court made some public statements where he said the exclusion of computer programs is not a problem to grant software patents, beacuse it can be ignored with the "as such" provision.
Which states: “Article 21
Requests for preliminary rulings
As a court common to the Contracting Member States and as part of their judicial system, the Court shall cooperate with the Court of Justice of the European Union to ensure the correct application and uniform interpretation of Union law, as any national court, in accordance with Article 267 TFEU in particular. Decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union shall be binding on the Court.”
The 'common court' is being disputed by academics, as the jurisprudence of the CJEU on what is a 'common court' does not fly with removing national courts from interpreting EU law (art 4.3TFEU, art19.1TFEU and art267TFEU):
"how EU democratic processes work"
Well, to make things worse, the EU is not signatory of the Agreement, so you cannot seize the European Court of Justice, nor complain to the European Parliament.
The plan to validate software patents in Europe was to keep the European Court of Justice away from Patent Law.
The elected President Klaus Grabinski of the Unified Patent Court made some public statements where he said the exclusion of computer programs is not a problem to grant software patents, beacuse it can be ignored with the "as such" provision.