MEPs have asked for an important piece of legislation to be sent back to the drawing board striking a blow to the EU's internal market commissioner, Charlie McCreevy.
The computer-implemented inventions directive, which critics say wrongly allows software to be patented, was voted down by MEPs in the legal affairs committee following a heated debate on Wednesday (2 February).
"In the debate, broad agreement prevailed over the fact that the current proposal on the Council's table w...
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