The European Parliament has unanimously backed a motion for the European Commission to review its proposal for a software patents directive, in accordance with decisions taken by the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on February 2 and the Conference of Presidents on February 17:

‘The Newspeak from the European Patent Office has failed to achieve its mission. It’s now time for the Commission to propose a solution to the problems that have been caused by the European Patent Office, rather than to impose these problems on Europe,’ [Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure] president Hartmut Pilch said. Pilch said the Danish government was coming under increased pressure to withdraw its support for the EU Council’s software patent directive agreement of last May.

The push for adopting the directive was halted in December last year when Poland backed away; subsequently Denmark also reportedly said it would join Poland in blocking the directive if it was sought to be pushed through.