Commons debate on patent bill yesterday

A long debate in the House of Commons yesterday on the Patents bill, 
which makes some mostly pretty technical changes.

Even in the new improved They Work For You presentation, it's a pretty 
lengthy read, for not an awful lot of enlightenment:
	http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2004-06-07.39.0

but quite revealing for some of the broader views taken by MPs on 
patents (or rather: by the handful of interested MPs).

It's clear that the Patent Defence Union seems to have got its message 
over quite successfully.  We should perhaps have tried to be more 
effective, too.  But David Taylor (Lab, NW Leics) made quite an 
effective intervention against swpat,
       	http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2004-06-07.52.0
although the minister dismissed it with the usual pre-prepared paragraph
	http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2004-06-07.69.1