3 Amendments of Virginie JORON related to 2021/2007(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that patents exist to reward innovation, not to provide income for products that are not particularly innovative. Consumers consider that some software products that have been around for decades (such as Word and Excel, invented in 1981) are too expensive and that the protection afforded to them no longer corresponds to the innovation they bring.
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that the Commission is very active in genericizing certain innovative industries such as the pharmaceutical industry, sometimes at the expense of employment and research in Europe, while allowing other less innovative industries (consumer software, music from the 1960s...) to reap a quasi- perpetual income at the expense of consumers.
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to draw up a list of foreign companies found guilty of espionage, piracy or aggravated theft of intellectual property at the expense of European companies or Member States, and to exclude companies on that list from public procurement in Europe.