[Techworld] Price of simpler European patents is an increase of software patent dangers, open source group warns

(L’Union Européenne s’apprête à rendre la procédure d’obtention d’un brevet plus simple et moins onéreuse, mais cela pourrait aussi rendre dangereusement simple le blocage de compétiteurs à travers toute la zone) The European Union is readying a way to make the process of obtaining a patent simpler and less expensive, but it could also make it dangerously easy for litigants to block sales of their competitors’ products across the region, according to a French advocacy group.