More on the intensive lobbying that preceded the software patents vote last week (previous blog entries here, here and here).

Sifting through the piles of communications I received last week on the software patents directive, I found a pro-patent letter from Astron Clinica, a skin imaging company based in Cambridge. The plausibility of the letter's impassioned arguments in favour of intellectual property rights for philosophical and ethical reasons abruptly self-destructed in the very last ill-advised sentence, which read:

"Software patents are not a big versus small company issue, they are about investment, marketing and making money."

How not to lobby an MEP!