continued and even exacerbated granting of patents for unpatentable subject matter such as computer programs by EPO, against the will of europarl + natparls and according to rules that were explicitely criticised and rejected by a large majority of the elected lawmakers;

"Law is changed by adopting new legislation. The European Parliament rejected the directive, which means there is no new legislation. A rejection of software patents would have required new legislation rather than no legislation at all. There are no grounds to conclude that the rejection of the *directive* should be construed as a rejection of *software patents*. The rle of lawmaking is that the law is *not* changed if lawmakers do not adopt new laws."